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