Example Sentences
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But horizontally, under glass in a large table, this caught my attention: an engrossing collection of 1930s and 1940s newspaper clippings Picasso kept — he was quite the packrat — about the Hitler “degenerate” purges.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2025
Anyway, if you’re a moneyed packrat with a ticket out of here, please don’t hesitate.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
For them, the episode is not just a story about a presidential packrat or a sloppy filing system, but an example of how fragments of American history are at risk of being lost.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
“Frankly, I am a packrat and it was running away with me,” she said, “all the junk I was accumulating.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2011
You lousy packrat, you've broken that child's heart!
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
