valise
Example Sentences
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A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle barrel and a battered traveling valise used by immigrants from Lithuania are lined up against a wall.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2022
They characterize the Bureau as “an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language inquiry and the unguarded arts,” and “a valise fiction and portable literary service in the public domain.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2021
I am willing to accept, as settlement, as many $20 bills as can be crammed into a standard-size valise and mailed to my home.
From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020
It is weirdly classy, like a valise or an upmarket clutch.
From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2017
When they arrived, carrying all of their belongings in one valise, they both knew right away that perfect was not the word.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.