pack animal
Example Sentences
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For lookouts reachable on foot within a day, the Forest Service provided a pack animal — but the human had to walk.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Further, the camel’s capacity to store fat and water enabled it to travel up to ten days without stopping for fresh water, more than twice the time and distance of almost every other pack animal.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
But until Bieber can emancipate himself from them, it will always be hard to, well, “beliebe” in him as something more than a musical unicorn who’s internalized his role as a pack animal.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2020
Lurie and his pack animal fall in with members of the United States Camel Corps, and many adventures are had.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
“But I’ll need a new pack animal to carry my gear ” It seems my luck had finally turned.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
