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  • adjective shaped like a bag

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Examples

  • Artists and designers presented a wide range of health-related works and inventions, ranging from a bag-shaped object that you can privately scream into to release pent-up anxiety, to a public art project that is increasing a town's understanding of long embedded toxins in their local environment, to visualizations of the discourse around the healthcare bill that bring order to confusion.

    John Maeda: Art and the He(art) John Maeda 2011

  • Artists and designers presented a wide range of health-related works and inventions, ranging from a bag-shaped object that you can privately scream into to release pent-up anxiety, to a public art project that is increasing a town's understanding of long embedded toxins in their local environment, to visualizations of the discourse around the healthcare bill that bring order to confusion.

    John Maeda: Art and the He(art) John Maeda 2011

  • I was in a heap, on a lot of spikes, some fifteen feet or so below ground level, at the bottom of a bag-shaped game pit.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • Late on the following afternoon the old bark blundered into this bay -- a rippling sheet of water, bag-shaped, and bordered on all sides by a sandy beach.

    "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

  • I made a short cut for it and the next news was I was in a heap, on a lot of spikes, some fifteen feet or so below ground level, at the bottom of a bag-shaped game pit.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • She shrank together in her snuff-colored, bag-shaped gown, and hesitated before she would put out her small hand, and her eyes expressed ineffable disgust.

    Paul Patoff 1881

  • Then, about two deep notches in the huge shaft, thongs were soon tied strongly, and just below its middle were attached the bag-shaped urus skins.

    The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man Stanley Waterloo 1879

  • _ Among the various kinds I can mention only the _piment-café_, or "coffee-pepper," larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet-red at one end; the _piment-zouèseau, or bird-pepper, small and long and scarlet; -- and the _piment-capresse_, very large, pointed at one end, and bag-shaped at the other.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • The costume of the men, which is chiefly home-made, consists of a rough, thick jacket of brown wool; a coarse woolen shirt; a knitted bag-shaped cap on the head; a pair of knee-breeches of the same material as the coat; a pair of thick woolen stockings, and sheepskin shoes, generally covered with mud -- all of the same brown or rather burnt-umber color.

    The Land of Thor 1848

  • Her nude top and bag made her look like she's topless, with a bag-shaped cyst on her side.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

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