pack them in
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Plug-in hair straighteners and curling irons don’t have any flight restrictions so you’re free to pack them in your carry-on or check-in luggage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025
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
In other words, in the post-“Iron Man” era a cool costume and a swarm of computer-generated effects may not pack them in anymore.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2011
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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