pack rat

Example Sentences

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“Very personal things. My roller skates from the 50s when I played street hockey in Brooklyn. I’m a pack rat and a collector. My restaurant was like my gallery, my museum.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

A known pack rat, Trump travels often, throws papers and news clips in cardboard boxes and sometimes instructs that boxes be brought along when he travels.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2023

Poorly, with the eye and tatty grace of a pack rat.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2021

He is a pack rat, and kept the original packaging.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

He was a regular pack rat, though smaller.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck