How to Use book bag in a Sentence

book bag

noun
  • For most of us, a back-to-school book bag is a kind of small backpack for storing study supplies.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 25 Aug. 2025
  • So Cracraft grabbed a book bag and raced out the door, making his flight (and its connections).
    — Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Scattered about are baseball bats, book bags, bicycles.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Inside her book bag, though, was a permission slip for a field trip to the zoo scheduled for later that week.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Inside her book bag, though, was a permission slip for a field trip to the zoo scheduled for later this week.
    — Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Paloma Picasso book bags This is one for the scholars!
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2026
  • With book bags full and body caffeinated, head to Ebimaru Ramen for dinner.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Police recovered about a dozen handgun shell casings at the scene of the Wednesday shooting, as well as two book bags.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • In each incident, the burglars took book bags and electronics from inside the vehicles, police said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In one day, volunteers helped assemble more than 2,000 curriculum kits and book bags.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 18 May 2026
  • For the schools chosen, Bernie’s distributes these book bags for students to take home with them once a year from the start of their education until sixth grade.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • According to the report, the two unidentified suspects took his book bag containing school supplies, his high school diploma, and his cellphone.
    — December 5, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Eric Billops was standing at a bus stop yesterday afternoon as Hyde Park Academy was letting out for the day when witnesses told police another person in a school uniform came up to him, took a gun out of a book bag and started to fire.
    — Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Eric Billops was standing at a bus stop Wednesday afternoon as Hyde Park Academy High School was letting out for the day when witnesses told police another person in a school uniform came up to him, took a gun out of a book bag and started to fire.
    — Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Eric Billops was standing at a bus stop Wednesday afternoon as Hyde Park Academy High School was letting out for the day when witnesses told police another person in a school uniform came up to him, took a gun out of a book bag and started to fire.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026

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