Below you will find example sentences with "grab bag". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Grab Bag in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 13
- Discovered as a combination around: grab
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 3 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "grab bag" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 22.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a creative grab bag of smoking, a grab bag of longstanding, billion, tax and ever stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with plastic bag, bag containing, sleeping bag and grab quick, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with grab bag
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A grab bag of longstanding risks continues to persist. (9 words)
Urich’s techniques to that end are a grab bag. (10 words)
Once underway, the contest inspired a creative grab bag of smoking styles. (12 words)
Beyond the $300 billion figure, the agreement adds $89 billion in overdue disaster aid for hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, a politically charged increase in the government's borrowing cap, and a grab bag of health and tax provisions. (41 words)
Essentially morphing into a coverall-clad insult comic perversely framed as town crier for a grab bag of buzzy social-justice hot-buttons whose actual victims are of course apparently not sympathetic enough to speak for themselves. (37 words)
Meanwhile, a grab bag of tax and fee increases approved by lawmakers in the past 19 months — after Republicans rejected two Wolf requests for multibillion-dollar tax increases — is providing about $1 billion a year. (35 words)
Example sentences (13)
A grab bag of longstanding risks continues to persist.
Cherry-picking a grab bag of statistics without understanding their interpretation proves nothing.
It will be tempting to dismiss the GSI as a grab bag of cliches.
The discourse has become a grab bag — and, one suspects, a — where serious research mingles with New Age sloganeering and self-care practices designed to soothe the troubled souls of guilty liberals.
Urich’s techniques to that end are a grab bag.
Ever since Trump cinched the nomination in 2016, the Republican platform has just been one big grab bag of grievances.
It gives the library a sense of careful curation; this isn't just a random grab bag of whatever stuff they could get the rights to.
City clerks have a grab bag of responsibilities, most of which are defined by the state legislature.
Once underway, the contest inspired a creative grab bag of smoking styles.
Beyond the $300 billion figure, the agreement adds $89 billion in overdue disaster aid for hurricane-slammed Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, a politically charged increase in the government's borrowing cap, and a grab bag of health and tax provisions.
Essentially morphing into a coverall-clad insult comic perversely framed as town crier for a grab bag of buzzy social-justice hot-buttons whose actual victims are of course apparently not sympathetic enough to speak for themselves.
If a grab bag of dodgy sites are to be believed, the Obamas live much more exciting lives now than they ever did in the White House.
Meanwhile, a grab bag of tax and fee increases approved by lawmakers in the past 19 months — after Republicans rejected two Wolf requests for multibillion-dollar tax increases — is providing about $1 billion a year.