Below you will find example sentences with "paper bags". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Paper Bags in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: bags
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 19
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.3 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "paper bags" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 25.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as also found paper bags had to, at all paper bags cost a, plastic, grocery and brown stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with toilet paper, plastic bags, paper tape, reusable bags and shopping bags, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with paper bags
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Yard waste bags should be biodegradable paper bags. (8 words)
Plastic bags will also be ditched in favour of paper bags in the coming weeks. (15 words)
Paper bags vs reusables: We get it, restaurants have started giving paper bags for food delivery. (16 words)
In Eugene, Oregon, grocery stores don’t offer the plastic grocery bags at all, paper bags cost a nickel, and I have acquired a lovely array of non-disposable grocery bags that I actually like better than the dumb plastic ones anyway. (42 words)
And the supermarkets listened, and the brown paper bags were replaced by flimsy plastic bags which were okay, until you carried anything heavier that a two-litre milk carton, because the handles would break and everything would fall on the floor. (41 words)
I think a corporation such as Acme should provide paper bags for free until they get the reusable bags in. It’s not the charge per bag because I’m in for a couple of bucks already; it’s the principle. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
In Eugene, Oregon, grocery stores don’t offer the plastic grocery bags at all, paper bags cost a nickel, and I have acquired a lovely array of non-disposable grocery bags that I actually like better than the dumb plastic ones anyway.
He said entries should be made of reused and recycled materials such as food packaging and wrappers, craft bags, plastic or paper bags, plastic straws, container lids, cardboard, paper, newspaper, magazines and plastic bottles.
Namely, that if paper bags are still available, people will simply switch from plastic to paper bags, which come with their own set of problems.
Paper bags aren’t much better than plastic bags because paper production uses more resources than plastic production.
Paper bags vs reusables: We get it, restaurants have started giving paper bags for food delivery.
And the supermarkets listened, and the brown paper bags were replaced by flimsy plastic bags which were okay, until you carried anything heavier that a two-litre milk carton, because the handles would break and everything would fall on the floor.
Paper bags, on the other hand, are more easily recycled than plastic bags and are biodegradable, but some states and cities have moved to ban them because they are carbon-intensive to produce.
All bags must be out prior to 6 a.m., and all items must be in biodegradable paper bags for pickup.
If AT readers will remember, plastic bags were the environmentalist’s answer to save all those poor trees that were cut down to make paper bags.
The law also mandates businesses provide paper bags that may be recycled — or reusable bags at a cost of no less than 10¢ a piece.
The study also found paper bags had to be reused at least three times to be better than plastic bags.
Stores would be required to make recyclable paper bags available to customers for a charge of 10 cents, and food stores would have the option of making reusable grocery bags available for 10 cents or more.
I think a corporation such as Acme should provide paper bags for free until they get the reusable bags in. It’s not the charge per bag because I’m in for a couple of bucks already; it’s the principle.
Mayor Jorge Elorza vetoed an ordinance Monday, which would require retailers to charge at least 10 cents for replacement paper bags or more durable plastic bags.
Plastic bags will also be ditched in favour of paper bags in the coming weeks.
The drive taking place on Friday and Saturday encourages shoppers to swap plastic bags for paper bags.
Yard waste bags should be biodegradable paper bags.
Bag lunches were carried in plain brown paper bags; packages were wrapped in plain brown paper.
In an early chapter, the author recalls how the “bursting paper bags” filled with craft items inform a memory of making handmade cards with a beloved uncle.
I used to put the cookies in brown paper bags and write “Craig’s Cookies” with a marker.