The phrase "pack of rats" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a group of animals, usually rats, that are traveling or living together. For example, "I saw a pack of rats scurrying around the corner of the alley."
But as I walked up to it I disturbed a pack of rats.
A wireless computer network could ferry data between a pack of rats so that if one rat were out of direct radio contact with the operator, its signal could still be transmitted through the network, Dr. Chapin said.
Larry, a 4-year-old tabby cat, arrived at his new home at 10 Downing Street to help rid it of a pack of rats seen scuttling close to the British leader's official residence.
To get there, though, one must walk south of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, past an all-night liquor store known for serving customers of all ages, a gaggle of homeless people, a pack of rats and a couple of stinky, smoky garages.
Ghosh writes with impeccable control, and with a vivid and sometimes surprising imagination: a woman's tooth protrudes "like a tilted gravestone"; an opium addict's writhing spasms are akin to "looking at a pack of rats squirming in a sack"; the body of a young man is "a smoking crater that had just risen from the ocean and was still waiting to be explored".
The dark wet metallic mirror shatters beneath my feet and a pack of rats climbs all over me.
He's still mostly musings
"We, the natives of Belitung, were like a pack of starving rats in a barn full of rice," says Ikal.
In a pack of 200 rats, where it's hard to remember who's been helpful and who hasn't, a general willingness to help others makes sense as a strategy, Rutte says.
The Las Vegas that Sally Denton and Roger Morris depict in their portentous and conspiracy-minded new book, "The Money and the Power," isn't the raffishly glamorous place of Rat Pack legend.
Indeed, one of the scare stories that gained greatest traction while the Channel Tunnel was being dug was that packs of rabid rats would use the bore as an invasion route to spread the fatal disease across Britain.
