How to Use grocery bag in a Sentence

grocery bag

noun
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  • Anyone who needs food but isn’t able to donate their time gets a free grocery bag full of food.
    — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2023
  • Try curling a backpack full of books or a heavy grocery bag instead.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 1 May 2023
  • Darryl Schultz then carried a grocery bag into the house.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2023
  • Kate carried their towels and snacks in a paper grocery bag.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Raffles and games will go on throughout the evening, and those who bring a grocery bag of full-sized toiletries will be entered into a raffle for the door prizes.
    — Carol Flynn, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2023
  • The door to the truck was ajar and the man's belongings — a wallet, grocery bag and cellphone — were scattered on the ground, according to court documents.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
  • At only 6 weeks old, the fuzzy feline was placed in a paper grocery bag, then left in a hospital dumpster.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • Video footage published by the Sun appeared to show him in handcuffs sitting close to a bicycle, grocery bag and sleeping bag.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
  • A couple looking for scrap metal spotted a human jaw in a plastic grocery bag.
    — Ken Brown, The Enquirer, 2 May 2023
  • Ricky uses a video camera to mediate his reality, finding visual poetry in drab images—a dead bird, a plastic grocery bag dancing in the wind.
    — Alex Pappademas, Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • At Hearn’s home, detectives found a motorcycle, a helmet, a red bandana and a backpack matching the description of a mystery man seen on surveillance footage in the area where Robert was killed, and a grocery bag full of receipts, authorities said.
    — Amanda Karrh, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Some projects on legislators’ wish lists fit more realistically into the grocery bag.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023

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