How to Use grab bag in a Sentence

grab bag

noun
  • Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts.
  • Wow, this pill grab bag goes crazy.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
  • All guests will get a grab bag of 3 free comics while supplies last.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
  • There will also be a silent auction, wine grab bags and more.
    — Pomerado News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, here is the latest grab bag of items to help you along.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Out of this grab bag of vérité and offcuts, Jia builds an epic.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • Every child will get a grab bag with prizes and costumes are welcome.
    — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Three men grabbed bags and placed numerous fragrances in the bags.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The rich, though, can rest assured that their tax bills would shrink if this grab bag were to become law.
    — Bryce Covert, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Though on the other hand, any one of them from this grab bag assortment might just save the day.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
  • That's it—a weird grab bag of some quick settings toggles and one or two Google apps.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The Flaming Grill has a grab bag of flavors.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, here is the latest grab bag of items of interest to help you along.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 1 July 2020
  • Here are some likely standouts from this year’s grab bag of performances.
    — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • This is a wide-open grab bag race that has been won by horses over 5-1 26% of the time.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
  • For a serious runner, this grab bag of benefits is too good to pass up.
    — Outside Online, 22 June 2020
  • And in many of these boxes, the toys and treats are more than just a grab bag of whatever’s lying around.
    — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 17 May 2022
  • Here’s a grab bag of our favorites to add to your cart before your summer adventure.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2023
  • This weekend at Rockport offers a grab bag of music sure to please many tastes.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • Temu sells a grab bag of low-cost products that are sometimes practical and sometimes bizarre.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But from there, the tracklist becomes a real grab bag of beatmakers.
    — Benny Sun, Pitchfork, 17 June 2026
  • Many of Breakpoints elements feel rote, like they were pulled out of the big budget video game grab bag.
    — Matthew Gault, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
  • On the surface, Code 8 is essentially a grab bag of sci-fi and genre tropes.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The district quickly pivoted so that families walk up to the school steps to pick up grab bags of food.
    — Eva-Marie Ayala, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Plus, there’ll be demonstrations, exhibits, a raffle, a silent auction and grab bags and prizes for the kids.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The bars are, mostly, a grab bag of pop-culture signifiers on loan from everywhere and nowhere.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The reasons were vague, the usual grab bag of crimes—matricide, acting, that sort of thing.
    — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The Waste Land is an anti-narrative, a grab bag of images that pop in and out of the void.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Don't be too quick to dismiss the $2-a-pop grab bags, which are usually on display toward the front of the store.
    — Beth Kaufman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2016
  • To be sure, such a grab bag of policies lacks the intellectual tidiness of a carbon price.
    — Jeffrey Ball, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018

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