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

A known pack rat, Trump travels often, throws papers and news clips in cardboard boxes and sometimes instructs that boxes be brought along when he travels.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

Salamon, 68, is a journalist, author and self-described pack rat.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021

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