BAGGAGE in a Sentence

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On the twenty-second of October that party was no longer with the same troops and baggage trains with which it had left Moscow.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAGGAGE
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baggage
 n.  trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
2  At last the baggage wagons had all crossed, the crush was less, and the last battalion came onto the bridge.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
3  In Brunn everybody attached to the court was packing up, and the heavy baggage was already being dispatched to Olmutz.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
4  Prince Andrew took a horse and a Cossack from a Cossack commander, and hungry and weary, making his way past the baggage wagons, rode in search of the commander-in-chief and of his own luggage.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
5  You won't be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, Prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
6  You are in a position to seize its baggage and artillery.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIV
7  The greatest disorder and depression had been in the baggage train he had passed that morning on the Znaim road seven miles away from the French.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
8  The adjutants and battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet resounded.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
9  Alpatych kept meeting and overtaking baggage trains and troops on the road.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
10  She cautiously took one step and then another, and found herself in the middle of a small room containing baggage.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
11  Her equipages were the huge family coach in which she had traveled to Voronezh, a semiopen trap, and a baggage cart.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIV
12  The French evacuation began on the night between the sixth and seventh of October: kitchens and sheds were dismantled, carts loaded, and troops and baggage trains started.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
13  From the bridge they had a view of endless lines of moving baggage trains before and behind them.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
14  The baggage carts drew up close together and the men began to prepare for their night's rest.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
15  On the twenty-second of October that party was no longer with the same troops and baggage trains with which it had left Moscow.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  The Railway Administration of Beijing redressed the damage done to my baggage during the transportation.
2  He identified his baggage among hundreds of others.
3  Massive baggage trains enabled rapid troop movement by the Frankish army without repeated foraging.
4  I will call a baggage carrier to help me.
5  Check your baggage in at the desk.
6  He took a gun through baggage control to highlight the lax security.
7  Each employee brings his or her own psychological baggage to the workplace.
8  Please deliver the baggage to my hotel as soon as you have located it.
9  Please deliver my baggage to my hotel as soon as you find it.
10  The good thing about these younger players is that they are not carrying any excess baggage from less successful times.
11  When you fully engage in the present, there is no room for baggage from the past or fear of the future.
12  In the Airplane movies, every flight turns into a debacle, with passengers and crew members collapsing, and baggage popping out of the overhead bins.
13  I will ask a porter to carry the baggages for me.