luggage

Example Sentences

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With the office closed, she said she was held overnight for eight hours, without food or drink, with her luggage confiscated and only left with her phone.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

After Li’s death in China at age 101, she stuffed materials in her luggage and flew to California.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Chinese national Zhang Kequn was arrested at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport last week with more than 2,200 ants, including 1,948 of the sought-after Messor cephalotes species, in his luggage.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

The Biden administration’s wheelchair protection regulations represent crucial safeguards for disabled air travelers, addressing a documented problem in which airlines damage wheelchairs at rates significantly higher than regular luggage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

With testimony distinguished from authority, what was previously authority became, in Glanvill’s words, simply ‘old and useless luggage’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton