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How to use bag in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Bag means a soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods. Example: “Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.”

Examples of bag by meaning

nounOne's preference.

  • Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.
  • And from then on, his bag was silence.1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250
  • They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20

nounThe cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

  • The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

nounFirst, second, or third base.

  • He headed back to the bag.

nounA sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

  • the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

nounAn udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.

  • Her bag is coming in nicely now.

nounA dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

  • With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye.2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14

nounIn certain phrases: money.

  • A bag refers to money.[2019 February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today...

noun£1000, a grand.

  • My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30

More sentences with bag

  • The restaurant had "Thank you for your patronage!" printed on its take-out bags.From the entry patronage
  • Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.From the entry work
  • I had to put my bags through an X-ray scanner at the airport.From the entry x-ray
  • I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute; can you hold my bag?From the entry duck
  • Place your bag by the entrance so that you can find it easily.From the entry entrance
  • Jones forced the runner at second by stepping on the bag.From the entry force
  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.From the entry slit
  • Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.From the entry count
  • The chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping.From the entry settle
  • The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.From the entry hardware
  • Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.From the entry handcart
  • Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.From the entry hook
  • Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.From the entry sort
  • She began to root around in her bag for the keys.From the entry root around
  • I shoehorned his dozen burgeoning bags into the backseat of my tiny car, and off we went.From the entry shoehorn
  • The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.From the entry pack
  • And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.From the entry trick
  • Never leave home without a spare stiffy disc in your bag.From the entry stiffy
  • The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.From the entry frisk
  • My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.From the entry knapsack
  • Baa baa black sheep have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, Three bags full.From the entry black sheep
  • Before he realized it, he had nibbled his way through a whole bag of potato chips.From the entry nibble
  • The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.From the entry jettison
  • Traveling by air gives security officials implied consent to search your bags.From the entry implied consent
  • He snarfed a whole bag of chips in a couple of minutes!From the entry snarf
  • Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.From the entry tiring
  • It was going to be a surprise party until someone let the cat out of the bag.From the entry let the cat out of the bag
  • Winners can choose a gift from the grab bags on the table.From the entry grab bag
  • With that system, it's a grab bag which files we can find at any moment.From the entry grab bag
  • Owning a car is a mixed bag. It is convenient, but also costly.From the entry mixed bag

Meaning of bag

  1. noun A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
  2. noun A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
  3. noun One's preference.

Full definition of bag

Questions about bag in a sentence

How do you use bag in a sentence?
Bag is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.”
What is a short sentence with bag?
“A bag refers to money.”
What does bag mean?
Bag means a soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bag (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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