backpack
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"I watched a little girl crying with a little pink backpack on because she's never going to see her father again."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Like everyone else, we're on standby, vehicles ready and a backpack packed. All we can do is wait," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
“I’m with my backpack all the time,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
In the video, the man was wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker backpack, according to the FBI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Oliver slid off the wall, hefted his backpack, and offered me his hand.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
Texas: Most clothing, shoes, school supplies and backpacks under $100 are tax-free Aug. 7-9.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
But this year, Target is promoting its June sales week as a major back-to-school event, touting 40% off JanSport backpacks and school staples like BIC pens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
What if we weren’t destined to tear each other limb from limb, to yell instead of speaking, or dig our backpacks into each other’s bodies on the train?
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
In the first, players held purple school backpacks decorated with bows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
We slip our backpacks on and hurry out the door before dissolving into full-fledged laughter.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
As recounted by Hey and the Santa Barbara Independent, Montgomery had backpacked or cycled across South America, including Argentina and Chile, and across Asia, including India and the Himalayas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
“I’m so happy to be back,” said Monica Macri, as she led her line of energetic, masked and backpacked fourth-graders toward their designated school entrance.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
Mann points to American Hiking Society numbers showing 34 million Americans hiked in 2013 and 9 million backpacked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
“I’ve backpacked all over the world. … There are places in this country I would never go on my own. It is my loss. I just don’t trust the public.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2020
Some ding-dongs believe me, though, and when that happens, I keep the lie going, spinning it until I run out of ideas: I backpacked through France, Germany, and Spain with my rich aunt from Barcelona.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
In a season when rock climbing, backpacking and shooting the rapids are popular, maybe our reading would benefit from going big.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Simone White, 28, from Orpington, south-east London, was one of a number of people taken to hospital when she had been staying in the popular backpacking town of Vang Vieng.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
Several are backpacking sites and do not offer potable water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
He and a friend would be backpacking for a year or more—Europe first, then Asia, ending up in the Philippines.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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