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How to use satchel in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Satchel means a bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc. Example: “The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"”

More sentences with satchel

  • The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"From the entry thrust
  • The satchel had belonged to his grandfather and the blanketlined duckingcoat he wore had been his father's.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry ducking coat
  • The man nodded at the satchel with its straps and brass catches.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry cattlebuyer
  • Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46. From the entry bucket
  • A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry breastwork
  • It could simply be a chocolate biscuit tucked into your leather satchel to be enjoyed at morning break along with the carton of free milk.2020, Jeff Zycinski, Travels from my Twilight Zone, →ISBN. From the entry playpiece
  • Grateful to be spared the experience of spending a night in Sulfur Falls, she situated her satchel—the single piece of luggage the driver, a Mr.2009, Tamera Alexander, Beyond This Moment. From the entry girthsome
  • So LaDonna Anderson picked up the trainer’s satchel (gad, it was heavy) and went out to attend wounded gladiators and gladiatresses (in season).1978 June 4, Gary Johansen, “Her Job Started as a Fluke”, in Sunday World-Herald Magazine of the Midlands, Omaha, Neb., page 22. From the entry gladiatress
  • Presently the man took a reed pen from his satchel, and trimmed it with a little ivory knife, carved in the semblance of a fish.1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill. From the entry penknife
  • Hurrying, sometimes leaping from boulder to boulder but never once glancing back or stopping to rest its heavy satchel, the grubling led them further down the gorge.2002, Stephen Elboz, Temmi and the Frost Dragon. From the entry grubling
  • Blue takes a small grey satchel down from the shelf and packs it with his thirty-eight, a pair of binoculars, a notebook and other tools of the trade.1987, Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy, page 138. From the entry thirty-eight
  • They are just a pair of soft-soled leather slippers which fold up and fit into a leather case designed to travel in a man's coat pocket or a woman's satchel.1913, The Young Woman's Journal - Volume 24, page 375. From the entry footglove

Meaning of satchel

  1. noun A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.

Full definition of satchel

Questions about satchel in a sentence

How do you use satchel in a sentence?
Satchel is used as a noun. For example: “The cutpurse tried to knock her satchel from her hands, but she avoided his thrust and yelled, "Thief!"”
What is a short sentence with satchel?
“Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.”
What does satchel mean?
Satchel means a bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.

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