PACK in a Sentence

Learn PACK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
245 example sentences for PACK, such as:
1. Pick a card from the pack.
2. You have a scant hour in which to pack.
3. The soldier carried a pack on his back.
4. The water in his pack made it very heavy.
5. Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PACK
pack
 v.  press tightly together or cram
 v.  press down tightly
Classic Sentence: (185 in 13 pages)
1  Behind each mirror was stuck either a letter or an old pack of cards or a stocking, while on the wall hung a clock with a flowered dial.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  Then off you go to her with your pack of lies.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  With that they repaired to the parlour, where, on Porphyri bringing candles, Chichikov perceived that his host had produced a pack of cards.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  "I tell you what," said Nozdrev, pressing the sides of the pack together, and then slightly bending them, so that the pack cracked and a card flew out.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
5  "No; to leave an issue to cards means to submit oneself to the unknown," said Chichikov, covertly glancing at the pack which Nozdrev had got in his hands.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
6  Somehow the way in which his companion had cut that pack seemed to him suspicious.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
7  Apparently this marked the consummation of Chichikov's relations with his host, for he hastened stealthily to pack his trunk and, the next day, figured in a fresh lodging.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
8  He had already had time to pack, and to set free all his frogs, insects, and birds.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  In the night he called his valet and told him to pack up to go to Petersburg.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
10  Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
11  The seven he needed was lying uppermost, the first card in the pack.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
12  The hounds were joined into one pack, and "Uncle" and Nicholas rode on side by side.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
13  A moment later he heard a cry from the wooded ravine that a fox had been found, and the whole pack, joining together, rushed along the ravine toward the ryefield and away from Nicholas.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
14  The pack on leash rushed downhill in full cry after the hare, and from all sides the borzois that were not on leash darted after the hounds and the hare.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
15  A splendid wife, children, a good pack of hounds, a dozen leashes of smart borzois, agriculture, neighbors, service by election.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  So, pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone.
2  My parents used to pack us off to camp every summer.
3  Pick a card from the pack.
4  The shop is giving away a sample pack to every customer.
5  She managed to break away from the pack and establish a lead.
6  Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
7  Machines now exist to pack olives in jars.
8  The water in his pack made it very heavy.
9  You have a scant hour in which to pack.
10  Let's pack up and get ready to start at once.
11  Volunteers were ready and waiting to pack the food in boxes.
12  Your resource pack includes addresses of leading manufacturers.
13  The club will send a free information pack.
14  The soldier carried a pack on his back.
15  Advances in chip technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip.