grocery bag

noun

US
: a plastic or paper bag used for holding items bought at a store

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Masiko peeled a couple of plantains from his grocery bag and gave them to him. John Blake, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025 By the episode's end, however, he's set his sights on Morgan, having surreptitiously slipped a note into her grocery bag. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025 Hayes, 22, was arrested in connection with Vega’s death on Nov. 11, 2024, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, after his fingerprint was found on a bloody grocery bag that had been left in Vega's car, court documents said. Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025 There, the space-time continuum tears open like an overloaded grocery bag, and the theory is unable to say what comes next. George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for grocery bag

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“Grocery bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20bag. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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