Definition of GRAB BAG

Examples of grab bag in a Sentence

Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts. the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres

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Starz’s The Rook, though, is strangely joyless, taking its grab bag of mood-board inspo elements and throwing in some Homeland along with X-Men, The X-Files, Harry Potter, and everything else flavoring its conceptual stew. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "A Supernatural Spy Story Goes Dark in The Rook," 2 July 2019 The cost to get Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn was extreme — a grab bag of players and three first-round picks plus a fourth coming via a swap of picks. — Dan Woike, latimes.com, "Anthony Davis trade brings a new look to Lakers and NBA free agency," 17 June 2019 For production duties, she's enlisted a grab bag of producers, but even Mirwais, who helped keep her career going on Music and Confessions on a Dancefloor, can’t rekindle any of those albums’ sense of fun or poppy concision. — Jonny Coleman, The Hollywood Reporter, "Critic's Notebook: Madonna's Cringe-Worthy 'Madame X'," 14 June 2019 On Schedule A, Congress eliminated deductions for miscellaneous expenses, a grab bag of items. — WSJ, "WSJ Tax Guide 2019: Other Deductions," 15 Feb. 2019 Trump is promoting a grab bag of new proposals as evidence of campaign promises kept while Democrats question the timing of the policy flurry so close to the elections. — Catherine Lucey, The Seattle Times, "Trump pitches policy in final midterm message," 27 Oct. 2018 The assortment of chairs around the sleek dining room table, a grab bag of pieces by Jean Prouvé, pays tribute to Drouin’s grandfather. — Samantha Weiss Hills, Curbed, "9 maximalist interiors that get the style right," 4 Sep. 2018 Cigarette smoke is a grab bag of chemicals — including 250 that are well-known to be bad for us, according to the National Cancer Institute. — Rachel Becker, The Verge, "Is nicotine actually bad for you?," 10 Aug. 2018 Mars is fairly obvious, and Planets That Are Not Mars is a grab bag of loony, exciting, comic-book stuff. — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, "Inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA's Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facility," 3 Nov. 2016

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