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How to use carpetbag in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word carpetbag? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Then she repacked her carpetbag and took it out of the crate.
My last au pair could barely fit a hatstand in a carpetbag.
I would like to say that we drove down to the docks at San Pedro to drop off Ishmael and his carpetbag, where he might drive away the spleen and regulate his circulation by putting to sea again.
Examples from Classical Literature
I stood with my shawl and carpetbag in hand, gazing doubtingly on the vehicle.
A traveller got out with his carpetbag in his hand, and was shown into the sanded parlour.
He's too honest entirely to stale the value of a pin, let alone a carpetbag.
With a whoop of joy, he grabbed up his carpetbag and started for the Vermonter.
The boy shouldered the carpetbag and started in advance, Robert following.
When the boy got through, he cast a speculative glance at the carpetbag.
Francis' sister, Jemima, was riding with her on the buggy, carefully clutching her carpetbag.
For I read on your carpetbag, when we met in the orchard, 'P. Bug.
And as he turned to leave her she looked closely at his carpetbag.
In short, the post-chaise was ordered and the carpetbag packed.
But nowadays they also need to pull 21st-century skills out of their carpetbag.
I gave him my carpetbag to carry this morning, and he ran away with it.
Gathergold, was close at hand, but the poet, with his carpetbag on his arm, inquired at once where Ernest dwelt, and was resolved to be accepted as his guest.
Thank goodness for the mother's sister, who breezes in, looking rather like the Wicked Witch of the East with her umbrella and carpetbag to save the day.
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