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  • noun Plural form of bookbag.

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Examples

  • Wolf explains that he is arguing for a "two-step framework," wherein schools can use a lower standard to search "backpacks, pencil cases, bookbags" but a higher standard when you "require a 13-year-old girl to take off her pants, her shirt, move around her bra so she reveals her breasts, and the same thing with her underpants to reveal her pelvic area."

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • Something ineffable but important vanished between the loss of the crumpled tweedy jackets and overstuffed bookbags, and the entrance of the pinstriped three-piece suits.

    Meet The Publishers « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • The infrastructure of the printed book includes bookstores, libraries, magazine stands, bookshelves and bookbags, and paper-recycling depots.

    And the Book You Rode In On 2009

  • Boys ogled and snickered, boners hidden behind their bookbags while I vainly shielded myself behind an armful of brown-papered textbooks.

    Ramona: That's What I Want! Thomas Pluck 2011

  • The infrastructure of the printed book includes bookstores, libraries, magazine stands, bookshelves and bookbags, and paper-recycling depots.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Wolf explains that he is arguing for a “two-step framework,” wherein schools can use a lower standard to search “backpacks, pencil cases, bookbags” but a higher standard when you “require a 13-year-old girl to take off her pants, her shirt, move around her bra so she reveals her breasts, and the same thing with her underpants to reveal her pelvic area.”

    Tomorrow’s Supreme Court Rumors Today « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • Wolf explains that he is arguing for a "two-step framework," wherein schools can use a lower standard to search "backpacks, pencil cases, bookbags" but a higher standard when you "require a 13-year-old girl to take off her pants, her shirt, move around her bra so she reveals her breasts, and the same thing with her underpants to reveal her pelvic area."

    The difference between in loco parentis and loco school principals 2009

  • Once she slung both bookbags over her shoulder, she heard a rustle in the trees.

    Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.2 H-M Brown 2011

  • They took off their sneakers, tying them to their bookbags, and they switched into their roller blades.

    Arcana Magi - c.13: Along the Way 2010

  • As Suzie and Karl packed up the remaining parts and prepared to pack their clothes, Alysia and Brie secretly packed away a few of their items into their bookbags.

    Arcana Magi - c.12: Danica Leandros, Sentinel of Seiryuu 2010

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