PACKING in a Sentence

Learn PACKING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
245 example sentences for PACKING, such as:
1. He left the packing to his wife.
2. I haven't packed my suitcase yet.
3. He packed a few things into a bag.
4. Then there was a great time of packing.
5. All prices include postage and packing.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PACKING
packing
 n.  any material used especially to protect something
 n.  the enclosure of something in a package or box
Classic Sentence: (185 in 13 pages)
1  And she arose the next morning with the fixed intention of packing her trunk immediately after breakfast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  She ran down the stairs with some idea of packing up Miss Pittypat's china and the little silver she had left when she refugeed to Macon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  For the dozenth time, she ran out onto the porch but this time she did not go back to her futile packing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  There were never enough chairs to go around and frequently ladies sat on the steps of the front porch with men grouped about them on the banisters, on packing boxes or on the lawn below.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  While Antonia was packing her trunk and putting her room in order, to leave it, the front doorbell rang violently.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  Then there was a great time of packing.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
8  "I'll have it ready in little or no time," he said, bustling and packing away his tools.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIX
9  They were drovers and stock raisers, who had come from far states, and brokers and commission merchants, and buyers for all the big packing houses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  One stood and watched, and little by little caught the drift of the tide, as it set in the direction of the packing houses.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
11  They make a great feature of showing strangers through the packing plants, for it is a good advertisement.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  Jurgis had come home with a big packing box on his head, and he sent Jonas to get another that he had bought.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  Jonas pushed a truck loaded with hams from the smoke rooms on to an elevator, and thence to the packing rooms.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  He had been in jail only three days for it, and had come out laughing, and had not even lost his place in the packing house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
15  All the year round they had been serving as cogs in the great packing machine; and now was the time for the renovating of it, and the replacing of damaged parts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  He left the packing to his wife.
2  I ought to begin to think of packing it in as a journalist.
3  Spielberg's new film is packing in the crowds.
4  All prices include postage and packing.
5  We've got a lot of things to do, but packing is top of the list.
6  The teachers were fully occupied with packing up and making other necessary preparations for the departure of those girls who were fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to remove them from the seat of contagion.
7  The car park was absolutely packed solid with people.
8  He packed a few things into a bag.
9  The sandwich bar is generally packed at lunchtimes.
10  She packed a small suitcase for the weekend.
11  We've packed the kids off for the weekend.
12  He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales.
13  The boss was not pleased with her work and packed her off.
14  I haven't packed my suitcase yet.
15  There's no time for poncing around - we've got to get these boxes packed by this evening.