valise

Example Sentences

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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

She put her amplifier, a folding chair, a pillow, her new CDs and a set list of more than 100 songs into a blue valise.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2016

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

When she's said her good-byes, Ollie takes her tapestry valise and puts his hand on the doorknob.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse