personal items

Example Sentences

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There was more room for my backpack and other personal items than I expected but I struggled to change clothes in there.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Near the body were personal items - a rucksack, coins, including one dated 1977, fragments of a Sun newspaper from 1978.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

It took up to a year to get their mother's personal items returned.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Wash your hands properly, choose paper towels over dryers, clean surfaces when needed, and keep personal items like your phone clean.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

“I wished to — ah — deposit certain — um — personal items in the room...”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling