grab bag

NOUN
  1. a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents
  2. an assortment of miscellaneous items
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How To Use grab bag In A Sentence

  • The remaining essays, despite the editors' protestations that this volume is more thematically coherent than the typical Festschrift, are something of a grab bag.
  • With various degrees of emphasis, the many projects within the large umbrella of Folkspraak try to unite living Germanic languages -- from the big four of English, High German, Dutch, and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish to the grab bag of smaller Germanic languages such as Low German, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Frisian, Icelandic, and Nynorsk -- under a single common auxiliary language. Archive 2006-12-01
  • He offered a grab bag of reasons for his decision.
  • Seven albums into his career, Terfry has gained a rep as a true original: he snarls like Tom Waits (after a throat lozenge), and compared to other rhymers, proffers stories instead of a grab bag of slogans.
  • We were left with a grab bag of effects, only a modicum of which registered.
  • He offered a grab bag of reasons for his decision.
  • A true grab bag filled with unexpected surprises.
  • Burwell is known for her visionary grab bag of charmingly painted furniture, and increasingly, for her stunning computer graphics work.
  • The kagu has long been classified with the gruiform birds, a grab bag of anatomically diverse families such as the familiar cranes and rails.
  • Instrumentation is sparse, pairing summer's day-on-the-stoop acoustic strums with a instrumental grab bag including banjos, dulcimers, ocarinas, hand drums, and shaken percussion.
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