packing
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Longtime folks like Sens. Gary Peters, Dick Durbin, and more are packing it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Susan Lazar Mussaffi, a Miami-based chef, was fastidious about following the packing advice for her Bordier butter after braving La Grande Épicerie’s Christmas crowds to get it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
He was back on the streets between March and July 2018, packing up his tent each night and moving from pitch to pitch.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
And when he finally let us go for the day, I spent as long as possible packing up my books, trying to delay the awkwardness of having to talk to him.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
In 1773 physicist and mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange found that the arrangement along a triangular lattice is optimal—so long as you only consider ordered packings.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2023
In geometry, he made key discoveries in the study of symmetries, sphere packings, lattices, polyhedra and tilings, including properties of quasi-periodic tilings as developed by Roger Penrose.
From Nature ● May 22, 2020
Hexagonal arrangements of cells are like closest geometrical packings of disks.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2017
After making physical models of tetrahedrons and demonstrating the packing patterns, she convinced Dr. Lagarias that her packings were as dense as she had said they were, and finally published her findings a year ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2010
The shelves were bare and only a litter of packings remained to mark the end of the chemist's great enterprise.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
