Examples of schoolbag in a Sentence
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The girl carries a schoolbag over her shoulder.
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Marisa Silver, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
Use attachment straps to hang this zip-up, schoolbag-size kitchen organizer from a tree or cabin post.
—Evan Green, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
Ann took the scissors out of her schoolbag, leaving the bag near the entrance.
—Clare Egan, Longreads, 18 Mar. 2022
Cross-border students basically don't bring anything other than books, stationery and snacks, so their schoolbags usually look lean.
—Julie Zaugg, CNN, 13 Oct. 2019
Videos posted online showed thousands of students in school uniforms, with schoolbags on their backs, marching Tuesday in the streets of Khartoum and other places.
—Washington Post, 30 July 2019
Venturi, who has two children and lives for part of the year in Rome, finds that many Italian moms mist their children’s clothing with perfume, and Roos says parents in France might also lightly spray the inside of a schoolbag.
—Kari Molvar, Vogue, 11 May 2018
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Marisa Silver, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
Use attachment straps to hang this zip-up, schoolbag-size kitchen organizer from a tree or cabin post.
—Evan Green, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
Ann took the scissors out of her schoolbag, leaving the bag near the entrance.
—Clare Egan, Longreads, 18 Mar. 2022
Cross-border students basically don't bring anything other than books, stationery and snacks, so their schoolbags usually look lean.
—Julie Zaugg, CNN, 13 Oct. 2019
Videos posted online showed thousands of students in school uniforms, with schoolbags on their backs, marching Tuesday in the streets of Khartoum and other places.
—Washington Post, 30 July 2019
Venturi, who has two children and lives for part of the year in Rome, finds that many Italian moms mist their children’s clothing with perfume, and Roos says parents in France might also lightly spray the inside of a schoolbag.
—Kari Molvar, Vogue, 11 May 2018
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First Known Use
1841, in the meaning defined above
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schoolbag
noun
school·bag
ˈskül-ˌbag 
: a bag for carrying schoolbooks and school supplies
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