Below you will find example sentences with "plastic bags". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Plastic Bags in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: plastic
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 32
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.7 words

Words in this phrase

plastic bags

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • plastic can mean: A synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting. Frequent word
  • bags can mean: plural of bag Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

51 billion plastic bags each year 1× and compostable plastic bags 1× better than plastic bags 1× better than plastic bags because paper 1× by flimsy plastic bags which were 1× called reusable plastic bags made from 1× customers with plastic bags encouraging them 1× exchange their plastic bags with eco 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

also getting reusable 1× and the drivers 1× and the supermarkets 1× anderson said she 1× at the same 1× don t want 1×

Common sentence endings:

and bicycle parts 1× by the bans 1× compostable plastic bags 1× for prepared food 1× handing them over 1× her front step 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

reusable 8× paper 7× use 5× instead 4× used 3× food 3× per 3× items 3× ban 2× biodegradable 2× thicker 2× recycled 2×

Related phrases

plastic waste paper bags plastic bag plastic pollution plastic bottles plastic products reusable bags plastic surgery shopping bags plastic bottle

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around plastic:

plastic waste 20× plastic bag 14× plastic pollution 13× plastic bottles 12× plastic products 12×

Just before it in the phrase index:

plastic bag planning system planning process planning permission planning department planning committee

Just after it in the phrase index:

plastic bottle plastic bottles plastic pollution plastic products plastic surgery plastic waste

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

plastic waste plastic bag plastic pollution plastic bottles plastic products plastic surgery

Same ending:

paper bags reusable bags shopping bags

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "plastic bags" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 51 billion plastic bags each year, and compostable plastic bags, reusable, paper and use stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with plastic waste, paper bags, plastic bag, plastic waste, plastic bag and plastic pollution, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with plastic bags

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Get reusable bags instead of using plastic bags. (8 words)

The city allows reusable bags, biodegradable bags, and compostable plastic bags. (11 words)

The bags shouldn’t exceed 35 pounds and plastic bags won’t be picked up at all. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

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)

While both supermarket giants decided to remove free “single-use” plastic bags from their checkouts nationwide in late June and July, but Coles then continued to provide reusable plastic bags for free while customers adjusted to the change. (38 words)

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. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

New York's ban exempts bags used for restaurant takeout food, plastic bags used to wrap meat, and bags used for prepared food.

The city allows reusable bags, biodegradable bags, and compostable plastic bags.

Those thicker, so-called reusable plastic bags, made from 80 per cent recycled material, were at the same time governments, including Queensland’s, started banning the supply of single-use plastic bags.

Paper bags aren’t much better than plastic bags because paper production uses more resources than plastic production.

The latter has led to cases of smuggling and the rise of black markets for plastic bags or to the use of thicker plastic bags that are not covered by the bans.

The Plastic Bag Reduction Act, introduced by Liberal MLA Allen Roach, would eventually prohibit retailers from providing customers with plastic bags, encouraging them instead to distribute paper or reuseable cloth bags.

While both supermarket giants decided to remove free “single-use” plastic bags from their checkouts nationwide in late June and July, but Coles then continued to provide reusable plastic bags for free while customers adjusted to the change.

He picked up a total of 150 items, including plastic children’s toys, plastic bags, personal hygiene items, plastic food wrappers, cutlery, and containers, as well as car and bicycle parts.

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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.

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.

That comes out to around 5.51 billion plastic bags each year and 594 bags saved per person per year.

Also, getting reusable bags and keeping them in your car so when you go to the store you don’t have to use up plastic bags.

Anderson said she transferred the groceries from plastic bags to her own reusable bags on her front step.

Don’t want anymore plastic bags since there are so many that are not recyclable anymore, and totally dislike having a collection of the reusable bags stuck at home.

Get reusable bags instead of using plastic bags.

The study also found paper bags had to be reused at least three times to be better than plastic bags.

And the drivers could use larger cooler bags and other reusable containers, like crates, instead of plastic bags, for example, since they’re putting items away instead of handing them over.

At the same time, Globe put up an Eco Booth in D’mall where anyone can exchange their plastic bags with eco bags to encourage a more sustainable practice.

The bags shouldn’t exceed 35 pounds and plastic bags won’t be picked up at all.

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