vacuum-pack

[ vak-yoom-pak, -yoo-uhm-, -yuhm- ]

/ ˈvæk yumˌpæk, -yu əm-, -yəm- /

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verb (used with object)

to pack (food) in a vacuum-packed container.

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How to use vacuum-pack in a sentence

“Change can be exciting,” Cuomo says to Richards as he helps her pack up her office.
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While some stray from the fold, most stay with the same pack their entire lives.
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But politicians abhor a rhetorical vacuum, and they have clamored to fill it.
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And lo, Snowballs—underpants which can hold a flexible gel pack that you store in the freezer—was born.
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Plus the notion of the poor little guy surrounded by a rag-tag pack of true believers is an American favorite.
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The party was made up of six men on horseback, two tame buffaloes, and a pack of immense dogs used to hunting.
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Its first cost and expense in working to be much less than that of the Watt low-pressure steam vacuum engine.
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The Wheal Prosper 16-inch pole high-pressure expansive steam vacuum engine commenced its up-stroke with steam of 100 lbs.
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There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.
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Dorothy cleared off the table, and went to her own room to pack up her clothes, and prepare for her journey.
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