pack rat
Example Sentences
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Fortunately for avid bibliophiles, Harper Lee was an inveterate pack rat.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Poorly, with the eye and tatty grace of a pack rat.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2021
He had known that his mother, Sandy Quimby, a half-hour away in Eagle River, was a pack rat.
From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2020
He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
That side of meat had been a big one, but now there wasn’t enough meat left on the rind to interest a pack rat.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
