How to Use pack rat in a Sentence
pack rat
noun
- I'm a terrible pack rat. I never throw anything away.
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The pack rat might fill a storage space or overwhelm an attic.
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Jessica Ravitz and Sandee Lamotte,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2020
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The Rat Pack connoisseur confesses to being a bit of a pack rat.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2021
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As in Darger’s case, Maier, who died in 2009, was a pack rat and a recluse who never sought to publish her work in her lifetime.
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Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
31 July 2022
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Those of us who have been labeled pack rats are really more on the bunny side in the kingdom of analogies.
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Lynn Petrak,
chicagotribune.com,
2 Oct. 2019
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By all accounts, Hemingway — trailblazer of the spare prose style — was a pack rat.
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Patrick J. McDonnell,
latimes.com,
30 May 2018
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So what happens when a pack rat ends up with a minimalist?
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Jura Koncius,
Washington Post,
16 June 2021
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The neatniks may not understand it, but those of us who are pack rats, er, pack bunnies, help keep family legacies alive.
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Lynn Petrak,
chicagotribune.com,
2 Oct. 2019
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What was surprising, and helpful to the journalists, was that some former Exxon employees turned out to be pack rats and had kept copies of decades-old reports.
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Reeves Wiedeman,
Daily Intelligencer,
7 Jan. 2018
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Joshua trees were once dispersed across landscapes with help from ancient pack rats and elephant-size giant ground sloths, a finding based on the abundance of seeds found in fossilized dung.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2020
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Wolfram, a digital pack rat, has also recorded many of the brainstorming meetings between himself and his collaborators and is releasing 430 hours or so of videos.
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Steven Levy,
Wired,
14 Apr. 2020
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Perot the pack rat Perot collected everything from whimsical toys to priceless artifacts.
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Cheryl Hall,
Dallas News,
9 July 2019
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This one reclassifies: One person’s pack rat is another’s collector.
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Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
17 May 2018
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