How to Use grab bag in a Sentence

grab bag

noun

• Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts.
• It’s a grab bag, and in terms of the writing, a slightly mixed bag.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2022
• This is a wide-open grab bag race that has been won by horses over 5-1 26% of the time.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
• Meanwhile, here is the latest grab bag of items to help you along.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 5 Aug. 2020
• All guests will get a grab bag of 3 free comics while supplies last.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
• Here are some of the tools in the home security grab bag.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2019
• Bring a potluck dish, a $10 grab bag gift and $3 admission.
  — courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• That's it—a weird grab bag of some quick settings toggles and one or two Google apps.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2023
• The Waste Land is an anti-narrative, a grab bag of images that pop in and out of the void.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
• Though on the other hand, any one of them from this grab bag assortment might just save the day.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
• The rich, though, can rest assured that their tax bills would shrink if this grab bag were to become law.
  — Bryce Covert, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Three men grabbed bags and placed numerous fragrances in the bags.
  — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2019
• For now, there’s a grab bag of upgrades and new additions.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 14 Aug. 2019
• And in many of these boxes, the toys and treats are more than just a grab bag of whatever’s lying around.
  — Sara Coughlin, SELF, 17 May 2022
• Meanwhile, here is the latest grab bag of items of interest to help you along.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 1 July 2020
• On the surface, Code 8 is essentially a grab bag of sci-fi and genre tropes.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
• Don't be too quick to dismiss the $2-a-pop grab bags, which are usually on display toward the front of the store.
  — Beth Kaufman, Good Housekeeping, 11 Feb. 2016
• Every child will get a grab bag with prizes and costumes are welcome.
  — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
• Many of Breakpoints elements feel rote, like they were pulled out of the big budget video game grab bag.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
• Plus, there’ll be demonstrations, exhibits, a raffle, a silent auction and grab bags and prizes for the kids.
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• This weekend at Rockport offers a grab bag of music sure to please many tastes.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
• The district quickly pivoted so that families walk up to the school steps to pick up grab bags of food.
  — Eva-Marie Ayala, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2020
• The film might be the wildest pick in the grab bag that is the outstanding television movie category, which sees Reno 911!
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2022
• The reasons were vague, the usual grab bag of crimes—matricide, acting, that sort of thing.
  — Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• Here’s a grab bag of our favorites to add to your cart before your summer adventure.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2023
• But Tomboy remains a grab bag of ideas and observations.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2020
• It’s the usual grab bag of new features, extra settings and a subtle software makeover for iPhones and iPads.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• From this grab bag, Hill identified 20 carved wooden objects that served as the seats of whaling boats.
  — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• Origin is a collection of ideas, of scenes and snatches both personal and historical, even a couple of interviews — a grab bag that, on paper, probably shouldn’t work.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2024
• Among ThyssenKrupp’s grab bag of businesses was a world-leading supplier of equipment for making chlorine, a chemical with many uses including in drinking water and swimming pools.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024