🇬🇧 Shopping bag meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A shopping bag is a big bag with handles that you use to carry the things you buy from a store, like food, toys, or clothes. It can be made of paper, plastic, or cloth. You hold it in your hand or on your arm so you can take your shopping home without dropping everything on the ground.

The shopping bag was so big that when I carried it, all you could see of me was two legs and pure determination.

Mom said, “Just one thing,” and then somehow needed a shopping bag the size of a small spaceship.

I wore a shopping bag as a hat, and now the dog thinks I’m the official Snack Delivery Person.

Our dog stole the shopping bag, thinking it was full of treats, but it only had toilet paper, the world’s most disappointing snack.

The shopping bag got squished, so now all our bread looks like it got sat on by an invisible giant.

A woman tottered home with a heavy shopping bag, one shopping bag held low, handles cutting her fingers. The shopping bag swayed with bread, apples and a small plant. At the gate a child let go and a second shopping bag tumbled, spilling carrots. She scooped up the scattered produce, hugged the shopping bag and smiled.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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