Sentence examples for usual bag from inspiring English sources

"The series carries the usual bag of space-fiction hard- and software — lasers, telepathy, time warps, etc.," he wrote in the 1960s about a new show, "Star Trek".

But the best thing about Harvey's new work is that it reaches for subjects that don't lend themselves to her usual bag of tricks.

As the boom fizzled, and demand for IBM's hardware and services slowed, these critics said that Mr Gerstner used the usual bag of tricks to cover up the evidence.

I wasn't slapped round the face by the usual bag of musical tricks; the combination of words, vocals and melancholic chord changes that combine to magically tug at an unsuspecting heart just waiting to be tipped over the edge.

But though the newly-octogenarian Rollins rummaged in his usual bag of ballads and fierce calypsos, he barely slackened his intensity over a straight two-hour set, played an unaccompanied Ellington medley bubbling with fresh ideas, and stalked the stage on the grooving Global Warming as if he was never going to wind down.

He has dug into his usual bag of sordid campaign tricks: calling his opponents traitors, monopolizing the news media, distributing tractors among rural supporters and signing a law forcing foreign and white-owned companies to sell a majority interest to black Zimbabweans — meaning, of course, his cronies.

Bright buttons of broad beans and peas, a few leaves, wisps of pink radish and pale mooli, sprouting broccoli poking out here and there, sweet-sour baby onions, roasted almonds for crunch and snipped chives for oniony sharpness: beats the usual bag-of-mixed-leaves afterthought, doesn't it?

I was on the subway without my usual bags.

your ever so slightly heavier-than-usual bag.

In particular, if you're the sort to charm your way through life, it's possible you can charm airline staff into letting you off a few extra pounds or kilos of weight just by dint of being polite, friendly, and conspiratorial and suggesting ever so sweetly that they forgive your ever so slightly heavier-than-usual bag.

The usual It Bag was defined by its "girliness"; his was a unisex sack.