Sentence examples for baggage from inspiring English sources

The word "baggage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to physical items that someone is carrying with them, or to refer to emotional or psychological issues that they carry with them. For example: "She had to deal with a lot of emotional baggage from her past relationships."

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baggage

noun

Luggage; traveling equipment

  • Please put your baggage in the trunk.

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The number of boarding groups began to resemble something like a caste system; "change fees," which have always been outrageous, grew higher (two hundred dollars for domestic, three hundred dollars for international), while baggage fees soared to as high as a hundred dollars.

During a speech at a Republican summit in New Hampshire on Saturday, Paul dinged Clinton as needing two campaign planes – "one for her and her entourage, and one for her baggage".

All command sizeable constituencies; all, however, bring some serious baggage into this election.

The popular image of mercenaries as hard-drinking, womanising buccaneers is half a century out of date although, having grown up under white minority rule, they carry some of its baggage.

The puffin, RSPB president Miranda Krestovnikoff said, is an uncomplicated candidate, without political baggage.

We were carrying a lot of baggage all season and it feels great to unload that all in a few seconds now".

Burnham is one of the most experienced candidates but with that comes the baggage of being associated with the government of Gordon Brown.

But then there is the cabin baggage challenge.

I spot a few guys grabbing a last fag by the baggage tents, then I see two Super Marios and a Roman centurion.

At the center of the investigation are three Southwest employees: Kenneth Fleming, 32, Michael Vindeau, 28, and Keith Mayfield, 34, all Oakland-native baggage handlers.

Don't worry – it is happy to pay excess baggage on those cases of Aldi mackerel fillets in tomato sauce, or, as it likes to think of them, the tools of its trade.

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