How to Use pack rat in a Sentence

pack rat

noun

• I'm a terrible pack rat. I never throw anything away.
• The pack rat might fill a storage space or overwhelm an attic.
  — Jessica Ravitz and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Mar. 2020
• The Rat Pack connoisseur confesses to being a bit of a pack rat.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2021
• 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.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
• Those of us who have been labeled pack rats are really more on the bunny side in the kingdom of analogies.
  — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• By all accounts, Hemingway — trailblazer of the spare prose style — was a pack rat.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• So what happens when a pack rat ends up with a minimalist?
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• The neatniks may not understand it, but those of us who are pack rats, er, pack bunnies, help keep family legacies alive.
  — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• 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.
  — Reeves Wiedeman, Daily Intelligencer, 7 Jan. 2018
• 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.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• 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.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 14 Apr. 2020
• Perot the pack rat Perot collected everything from whimsical toys to priceless artifacts.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
• This one reclassifies: One person’s pack rat is another’s collector.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 17 May 2018

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