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How to use tote in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Tote means a tote bag. Example: “They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.”

Examples of tote by meaning

nounA kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.

  • They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants, page 129

verbTo carry or bear.

  • We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  • There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig
  • Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists.April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

More sentences with tote

  • Schlepping is Yiddish for "toting or dragging around," and a quintessentially New York City kind of term.2006, Kyle Ezell, Retire Downtown: The Lifestyle Destination for Active Retirees and Empty Nesters, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel…. From the entry schlep
  • I unlock my tote box and reach for my gym strip.2002, Diane Tullson, Edge, page 52. From the entry gym strip
  • Each tote is associated with an order in the batch.2025 September 5, “Batch picking”, in IBM, United States, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025. From the entry sort-while-pick
  • “If you look in your tote bags, you'll see I've brought you bizfluencer samples of my company's new youth serum, Lazaru.”2023 July 27, Ava Tramer, “B.I.T.C.H.” (8:33 from the start), in Harley Quinn, season 4, episode 2. From the entry bizfluencer
  • Bigfoot toting a surfboard to hang 10 very big toes.2017 March 15, Valli Herman, “9 ways to give your running gear a spring makeover”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles…. From the entry big toe
  • Ordered goods (to the stores or online sales) are picked by employees at pick to tote (PTT) picking stations.2017 February, Santeri Suni, “Improvement of shuttle and lift positioning in an automated warehouse system”, in Tampere University of…. From the entry PTT
  • It was a quilted leather tote with tiny skulls-and-crossbones inside each diamond; Sirena's style was definitely impossible to miss.2015, Jen Jones [i.e., Jennifer Lynn Jones], chapter 1, in The New Ashley (Sleepover Girls), North Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Young Readers…. From the entry skull and crossbones
  • And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it!1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies, page 39. From the entry flag-waver
  • You brought the best little old news you'll ever tote.1909, Rowland Thomas, The Little Gods, page 280. From the entry little old
  • One for each tote bag, TYVM.2023 November 9, Daisy Maldonado, Hannah Oh, “All the Juicy Deets on Glossier’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals (!!)”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry tyvm
  • The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they have just come off a cruise liner.2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55. From the entry cram
  • Her words conjure a determinedly striding auntie with a tote bag kiapped by her armpit, pushing the MRT doors open with sheer strength.2020 April 4, Yeo Boon Ping, “Red, White, and Black: The Lives of African Singaporeans and PRs”, in ricemedia.co. From the entry kiap
  • But on Tuesday morning it was crowded with players, some toting paddlelike bats, and filled with the sound of leather balls struck by wood.2009 June 29, Simon Akam, “With Every Whack of the Cricket Bat, a Bond”, in New York Times. From the entry paddlelike
  • Sam and Max are Freelance Police, irreverent and slightly insane, toting guns and determined to bring outrageous ultraviolence and fluffy kittens to the world.2008, Gene Kannenberg, 500 Essential Graphic Novels, Ilex Press, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry ultraviolence
  • “Maybe this will cheer you up.” Paige whipped the cutest cellophane-wrapped cake pop out of her tote, decorated like a mini pumpkin all the way down to the stem.2013, Tracy March, The Practice Proposal, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry cake pop
  • Romans transition out of diapers spawned models like the multipocketed trooper tote (roomy enough to hold food, toys and clothes), which spawned the megatote (it holds several trooper totes).2007 November 4, Alix Browne, “It Baggage”, in New York Times. From the entry multipocketed
  • The large baskets, called Bockeys (the old Dutch word for basket), used for toting this charcoal, were, I believe, the forerunners of the present-day Adirondack pack basket.1947 Spring, A. T. Shorey, “Ma and Pa Pitt”, in New York Folklore Quarterly, volume 3, number 1, page 38. From the entry bockey
  • From a large tote bag sat beside her, she takes out a Victoria Beckham makeup bag, which contains her urostomy night bag, which plugs into the bag on the stoma.2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The…. From the entry stoma

Meaning of tote

  1. noun A tote bag.
  2. noun A heavy burden.
  3. noun A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.

Full definition of tote

Questions about tote in a sentence

How do you use tote in a sentence?
Tote is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.”
What is a short sentence with tote?
“One for each tote bag, TYVM.”
What does tote mean?
Tote means a tote bag.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tote (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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