Example sentences for: bag

How can you use “bag” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Being unsuccessful at extracting DNA from pulverized fragments, Professor José A. Lorente loaded the bones in a shoulder bag and flew them to Dallas, Texas, where more sophisticated DNA tests (developed for the victims of the terrorist attack of 9/11) provided a disappointingly short and impure sequence of mitochondrial DNA.

  • But when it happens, you know where you are--in front of the television, dozing contentedly, while doctors say "stat" and cops say "dirt bag" and Tom Brokaw says "drug lords" and "terrorists," and "I want that stat, you dirt bag!"

  • A guy with a bottle-shaped brown paper bag, damp and wrinkled at its upper end, has almost certainly been slugging down a sweet wine of high proof, and the odds are pretty good you would find it is a muscadoodle . After the guy finishes his Napa Valley smoke and has slept it off, he is looking for the means to get another muscat fix.

  • The descendants of the sourdoughs (four of whom, early this century, first one of Mount McKinley's two 20,000-foot peaks, dragging with them a pine pole, an oversized American flag, and a bag of stale doughnuts) are, of course, less refined in their sensibilities.

  • Jack O'Rourke, who saw Mr. Shawn nearly every day from his cart outside the New Yorker offices, remembers him as a cold, taciturn man, who rarely said more than, "A bag of nuts, please," or "I think I'll have some of those tasty nuts."


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