Sentence examples for packrat from inspiring English sources

The bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea), often called a packrat, is among the largest and most common woodrats, weighing up to 600 grams (about 1.3 pounds) and having a body length of up to 25 cm (nearly 10 inches).

Mr. Bruce was also a world-class packrat who saved family possessions from five generations.

"Frankly, I am a packrat and it was running away with me," she said, "all the junk I was accumulating".

The only way to be sure you don't leak data is to not collect or retain it, and Big Data's hype and the cheapness of hard drives has turned every pipsqueak tech company into a Big Data packrat with a mountain of potentially toxic personal info on millions of people, all protected by a password that's simple enough for a CEO to remember it.

"I'm a packrat; I can't bear to throw things away," she said, as Anna and I wrestled with the contents of the closet.

His apartment is a mess, filled with a packrat's minutiae.

Some species are commonly known as "packrats" for their characteristic accumulation of food and debris on or near their dens.

Best of all, used-book markets abound, where yards of frayed paperbacks and magazines provide dangerous temptation for packrats like me.

BUG LIT: Cornell University's first-read selection this year is E. L. Doctorow's novel "Homer & Langley," about the Collyer brothers, two infamous packrats who were found dead in their Harlem brownstone in 1947 surrounded by more than 100 tons of accumulated stuff.

(Digital packrats can grab them all at once at www.sxswtorrent.com, or pick up a singer-songwriter-centric batch of 100 from NPR).