Example sentences for: pack

How can you use “pack” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • George E. Pataki and bipartisan legislative leaders agreed "to raise the state's cigarette tax by 55 cents a pack in an ambitious effort to provide health care coverage for as many as one million uninsured New Yorkers."

  • The neomorphemes show that in public life we are in a hurry and do not want to slow down long enough to devise an explanatory phrase if we can pack enough of our intention into a single word.

  • The New York Times stresses instead Democratic pressure on Starr to pack it in, noting that the White House and Congress were being guided in this by overnight polling indicating nearly two-thirds of those asked thought the Jones dismissal was good for the country.

  • Good reviews, for the most part, for the autobiography of one of hip-hop's most successful artists: "An amusing, contemplative memoir" that paints "a surprisingly humanistic portrait" of the crack dealer turned platinum-selling musician ( Kirkus Reviews ). The tales of his misspent youth and rise to fame are "eloquently told" (Michael Harris, the Los Angeles Times ). One reviewer splits from the pack and delivers a withering pan: "[T]he ability to sell a lot of records has almost nothing to do with insight or maturity.

  • Spacey as Hickey, the slick-talking salesman who punctures the pipe dreams of a pack of sad sack rummies in Harry Hope's bar, "gives the performance of his life," says Time 's Richard Zoglin: "A potentially grueling evening becomes a breathtaking experience."


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