Portmanteau Sentence Examples

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  • During one of these attacks they carried off my empty portmanteau and my dressing gown.

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  • Each officer to be allowed to take a carpet-bag or small portmanteau.

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  • What, he asked himself, had been the contents of the black portmanteau?

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  • Chaucer and Journey's End present obvious parallels, as do all the portmanteau horror films from the 1970s produced by Amicus Productions.

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  • Franz, Bilibin's man, was dragging a portmanteau with some difficulty out of the front door.

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