valise

Example Sentences

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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

This he most emphatically proclaimed in his creation of the X, Y and Z Portfolios, a modern-day boîte en valise, after Duchamp, a “suitcase” of the artist’s most select wares.

From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015

At 21 she fled to London with a handful of records in her valise and has been an expat ever since.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2015

Sprightly Over the last five years, the designer Guillaume Henry has considerably freshened the house of Carven, and this jeune dame, now robust, has dropped her valise in SoHo.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2014

She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now...”

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury