How to Use baggage in a Sentence

baggage

noun
  • Now, there’s a lot less baggage.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 6 May 2026
  • There’s a lot of terms out there that now have a lot of baggage.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • All the baggage that comes with Hill.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Off-field baggage will likely drop him a round or two.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Off-field baggage will likely drop him a round or two.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Your back and your baggage allowance will thank you.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Rather than turn away from the baggage, the movie unpacks it.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
  • Their bags will be sent right through the baggage system.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 5 June 2026
  • Their bags will be sent right through the baggage system.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • Give yourself a chance to breathe, free of old baggage.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s what to know about the baggage fee increase.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 8 Apr. 2026
  • These are adults with baggage, unable to walk away from their pasts.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But that’s a lot of baggage to lay on this guys-only night out, or in.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But Sorsby comes with a lot of baggage.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 June 2026
  • This helps to spread out your packing to avoid excess baggage fees.
    — Alison Syrett Cleary, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • The other cause for slowdowns isn’t in your baggage, but on your body.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Still, Valdez does not come without baggage.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Its prices are pushing up airfares, baggage fees and add-on charges.
    — Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • That is, until this year, as the award show arrives with its own set of baggage.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The baggage carousels are wrapped in World Cup messages.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The baggage carousels are wrapped in World Cup messages.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • This is the time to purge the emotional baggage to begin again.
    — Faith Bugenhagen, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
  • If the party wants to win, be smarter and ditch some of this obvious baggage.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
  • All of that baggage walked into Detroit with them, and none of it walked out.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Tellingly, the cross is the first of the two pieces of oversized baggage to be abandoned.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The movie still carries with it a great deal of legal baggage, which may give buyers pause.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
  • Yes, yes, the Left has tons of its own anti-Semitic and racist baggage.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Or seemingly any baggage at all.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • United raised its its baggage fees on Friday.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The baggage is a connective piece.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025

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