pack them in
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Birds and bigger fish eat them, fisheries scoop them out of the ocean with giant nets and pack them in cans or even, in some cases, just grind them up.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2024
They travel thousands of miles on land to reach the Libyan shores where traffickers pack them in unseaworthy boats to Europe.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
FastBeetle delivery agents would pick up products, pack them in their office in the region's main city of Srinagar and deliver them on motorbikes and minivans.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023
“Press up a bunch of CDs, pack them in the trunk of the car and go to all these house parties up and down California,” Steve “Steve-O” Carless said of YG’s early strategy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2019
I poled my skiff from float to float, fishing out the soft crabs and taking them to the crab house to pack them in boxes filled with eelgrass for shipping.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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