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"Packet" in a Sentence (23 examples)
This book is the literary equivalent of Haribo sweets: you only want to eat one, but end up devouring the whole packet.
He bought a bread, a packet of butter and two canned sardines packed in oil.
Emily bought a packet of crisps.
Tom bought a packet of cigarettes under age, and claimed he was buying them for his father.
The drinks at Tom's daughter's wedding cost him a packet.
Soon you are going to receive a valuable packet.
I bought a packet of lettuce seeds for the garden.
This packet contains important information about this prescription.
Have you observed in the paper a short paragraph referring to the remarkable contents of a packet sent through the post to Miss Cushing, of Cross Street, Croydon?
At two o’clock yesterday afternoon a small packet, wrapped in brown paper, was handed in by the postman. A cardboard box was inside, which was filled with coarse salt. On emptying this, Miss Cushing was horrified to find two human ears, apparently quite freshly severed.
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Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
a packet of letters
a packet of biscuits
(archaic) a travel bag containing clothing, nightwear and other accessories.
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
Fishguard Harbour, constructed some 60 years ago by the G.W.R., became the packet port for G.W.R. services to Waterford and Rosslare - the latter port itself was a new venture partly under G.W.R. auspices - and to Cork.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].
The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.
2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet.
It'll cost a packet to fix this.
[H]er husband / VVas packetted to France, to ſtudy courtſhip, / Under forſooth a colour of employment, / Employment, yea of honour.
2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]
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