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:
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
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
Although the alleged activity in the Los Angeles dwelling wasn’t enough to send Madison packing, she has recently opened up about her desire to relocate to lighten the load on her coparenting situation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
With the potential for extreme weather––past years have seen wind storms and torrential rains—festivalgoers are packing accordingly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
McNeish began refitting the twenty-two-foot-long Caird for the journey, decking it over with packing crate lids and canvas, and raising the sides.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
![]()
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
The headphones were not out of box; they had been a post-Christmas return & were in their original box & inner packings & plastic wrappings untouched by human hands.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
Other packings are made from the ends of belts cut out in a circular form and treated with a lubricant.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various