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How to use the word Briefcase in a Sentence?

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Well, I'm concerned. There's a standard that we follow when it comes to members of Congress and classified information. The door to my office is closed. The person that presents the document to me takes it out of a locked briefcase, hands it to me and watches as I read it. When I finish reading it, he takes it back, puts it in the briefcase and leaves the scene, that's how carefully we review these documents. To think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Everybody has their own opinions about what the reason was, after a while, they were barely even trying to hide it … It was a fairly well-known fact that they did not get along … I think there was a briefcase thrown at one point.

Curtis Armstrong

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We can think of iconic images like The Atlantic monthly cover of the mom carrying the kid in the briefcase to work and how absurd that's supposed to be to us, but then when we think of women in lower-income countries, you think of the mom selling goods at the market with a kid strapped to her back, and you think,' Well, that's not a problem for her, because she can easily combine child care and work,' there's this perception out there that for the kinds of work that women do in lower-income countries, it's easier to combine child care and work.

Shelley Clark

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I heard about the show from my agent. She said, ‘Your dad is doing it.’ I was like, ‘I haven’t heard anything about it.’ I popped into his briefcase when he got home, and I was like, cool, i really wanted to play Andrea. I went in under a different name, then I got the part of Donna — which I’m sure had something to do with my dad.

Tori Spelling

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I'd barely arrived to a lunch with financiers and investors, and I already had in my briefcase an offer for $5 billion, i told them let's not get ahead of ourselves, I still haven't arrived.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The day of putting on a suit and tie at 6 in the morning and getting a clean cut shave and taking your briefcase to an office somewhere, it’s gone.

Blake Nash

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These cases suggest appraisal can still be a useful remedy for a stockholder, but you can't just have a briefcase full of analysis and hope to pull the wool over a judge's eyes.

Minor Myers

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On one hand, the woman was empowered ... she was a briefcase-carrying worker outside the home. But then there was the superwoman complex that came along and meant that while she was doing all that, she was also raising kids, and she was also trying to please her man, it was like, OK women — you wanted it all so now you can work, you can raise kids, you can look sexy and make the money.

Jennifer Nelson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Put something in the back seat where a child seat is always located that you're going to need at your final destination, something you know you're going to look for, like your cell phone, your purse, a briefcase, this, in fact, can happen to anyone, and we've seen it happen to anyone.

Kate Carr

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I began denouncing some briefcase companies, especially meat importers, apparently, it didn't go down very well, because it was touching the interests of some government figures ... Somehow, he (Maduro) began losing trust and our relationship deteriorated. So I resigned.

Hebert Garcia

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

‘It was about half past ten. I was upstairs in the van Pels’s part of the house, in Peter’s room, doing schoolwork with him. Suddenly someone came running up the stairs. Then the door flew open and a man stood before us holding his pistol aimed at my chest. Downstairs all the others were already assembled. My wife and the children and the van Pels family were standing there with raised hands. Then Fritz Pfeffer came in, followed by another stranger. The policemen ordered us to hand over our valuables. Silberbauer took Anne’s briefcase. He shook everything out, dumping the contents on the floor, so that Anne’s papers and notebooks and loose sheets lay scattered all over the floorboards.’

Otto Frank

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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