Sentence examples for pack off from inspiring English sources
verb
To send away, with belongings, for a long time.
- I was packed off to boarding school for 3 months and only saw my parents during the holidays.
I'd pack off to the pub, were I you".
In Harry's case it means you pack off to Sudan, wear a phony beard and join the natives in their battle.
Why pack off a crew of 30 and two stars to Switzerland, one of the most expensive countries in the world?
They decide on the Clinique Belvedere, a clinic which appears pastoral... medical but not quite hospital...like the sanitarium where they pack off Nicole in "Tender Is the Night".
She now lives through Kate (Alex Trow), whom she plans to pack off to New York City to study with the best artists so she can become a rich, famous painter.
While his fellow students log internships, hone SAT skills or pack off to specialized summer camps, the caddie packs golf bags for the leisure set, and packs plenty of money into his pocket for it.
Paolo was packed off to Austria.
But then, in 1841, he was packed off to Ireland.
Children were often packed off to boarding school.
Most were packed off to a remote camp.
Biggles has been packed off back to base.
