How to Use pannier in a Sentence

pannier

noun
  • The bike also comes ready to be equipped with a top case and side panniers.
    — New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Pack your panniers with a picnic, or indulge with lunch from a food truck.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2018
  • These Ortlieb panniers will take some weight off your back and put it on your bike.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Loops located along the upper edges serve to hang or lash panniers and packs.
    — New Atlas, 27 July 2024
  • When not in use, the kickstand neatly tucks under the rear panniers.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Baskets and wicker panniers lay piled up in a corner.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Big motors, full suspension, racks and panniers, lights, etcetera.
    — Brian Park, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Li also shredded the silk threads on a pannier skirt to mimic the texture of tofu.
    — Ari Stark, Footwear News, 19 May 2026
  • The pannier was around 38-inches wide, or a little over three feet, and extreme all on its own.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 July 2020
  • The city’s green spaces overflowed with couples jogging next to each other and cycling on bikes with matching panniers.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Some were printed with Delft china patterns, some striped with a leather insert at the hip to create a sort of faux pannier effect.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Big Agnes' bikepacking tents have shorter pole lengths, enabling them to fit between drop handlebars, or in panniers.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 2 July 2024
  • Jessee, who specializes in menswear, compared panniers to buckets made of metal boning and fabric that sit on the actors’ hips.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
  • Accessories such as racks, panniers, padded seats and rails are also optionally available.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Royal scarlet velvet skirt in pannier effect with petticoat of cloth of gold embroidered in red lilies and gold pittas.
    — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Back at work now, Koroknay-Palicz bikes in a T-shirt and shorts, carrying her work clothes and lunch in panniers.
    — Emma Brown, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile at Dior, Jonathan Anderson put panniers back on the map with his beribboned dresses.
    — Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026
  • All around them, new approaches to corsetry and panniers touch antique styles of dress with a thoroughly modern sense of movement—and more than a little magic.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
  • For those who prefer to move the load to the bike, GoCycle offers a front pannier that can be attached and removed quickly.
    — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 29 July 2019
  • The panniers fit on racks up to 16 millimeters in diameter, and also have adapters for narrower rails.
    — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Big Agnes was an early adopter among the mainstream brands, designing tents with shorter pole lengths to fit between drop handlebars or in panniers.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 25 May 2025
  • The bike can also be customized with a host of accessories like hard panniers and a racing exhaust for 11 more horsepower.
    — New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Aknvas pushed the peplum silhouette to a new extreme with denim tops that mimicked the shape of 18th century panniers.
    — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Four wiry legs fold outward to deliver low, stable support, packing right up against the main body to fit neatly in a backpack compartment, bike pannier or kayak hatch.
    — C.c. Weiss may 03, New Atlas, 3 May 2026
  • Accessories like panniers, a trailer, a phone holder, and rear-view mirrors are also available as optional extras.
    — New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Most backpacks and many cycling panniers are not waterproof themselves and packing items in waterproof stuff sacks eliminates the need for bulky rain covers.
    — Vanessa Nirode, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2023
  • And there’s a host of interesting accessories, like hard-shell panniers for the front and rear to increase your cargo-carrying ability.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books, and headed into the hills.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
  • Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books, and headed into the hills.
    — Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 22 June 2017
  • Saint Laurent and Dior went for full-throttle volume by way of massive ruffled maxis and the hippest of panniers, respectively.
    — Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 3 Jan. 2026

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