How to Use pack animal in a Sentence

pack animal

noun

• In the past, of course, armies used the low-tech solution of pack animals to move their gear.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018
• Texas coyotes are not the pack animals most imagine them to be, Henke said.
  — Shannon Tompkins, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2019
• Mules and horses The use of pack animals to carry hikers' gear in and out of the canyon is controversial, to say the least.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• Their wrangler made the heavily laden pack animals run up the Canyon, then tied them to a railing with no water in the trough.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 10 May 2018
• The resulting pack animals measured 61 inches, or 15 hands, from the ground to the withers.
  — Franz Lidz Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Felt was also used to make warm, weatherproof clothing and footwear, and blankets for pack animals.
  — Susan Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• The bustling Tang capital was the eastern terminus of the Silk Road trade route, and donkeys were frequently used as pack animals.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020
• While pack animals are available for a fee, the only way down is via a helicopter (long waits often are necessary) or your own two feet.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 July 2019
• The vibration of the simulated heartbeat—which can be turned on and off—helps ease their loneliness (dogs are pack animals).
  — Jennifer Tzeses, wsj.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• The donkeys were also smaller than is expected of pack animals.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Mar. 2020
• Analysis also revealed stress on the bones that occurred when the donkeys were alive -- but not the kind of stress typically found in pack animals used for carrying heavy loads.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Mar. 2020
• The service drops off and picks up mail at Hualapai Hilltop at a higher elevation, from where pack animals descend roughly eight miles to the village of Supai.
  — Russ Wiles, azcentral, 10 May 2018
• The dogs surpassed all expectations, traveling faster than any pack animal could in the wintry terrain.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
• There’s something distinctly out-of-control about having an unpredictable pack animal in your home, not to mention one that tracks in all kinds of allergens and minuscule crawly things.
  — Jim Cosgrove, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• Being a pack animal means agreeing to a set of rules or expectations established by the pack leader, i.e. their human family.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• Some towns have been practically cut off, forcing residents to rely on pack animals and occasional passing cars to get to the nearest city.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 15 May 2020
• The pack animals fiercely defend their flocks by braying, kicking wildly and charging, teeth bared, at potential predators.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• Modeling them as pack animals might change the apparent scavenging success rates of our own ancestors when in competition with the canids.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023
• Of course, regular racetrackers found nothing unusual about this happening to a pack animal.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2020
• As much of the film’s South American scenes concern either a river journey or a jungle slog (complete with pack animals, who Fawcett sometimes sacrificed for food), getting all of the scenes on-camera regularly proved demanding.
  — Donovan Webster, Smithsonian, 11 Apr. 2017
• Unlike dogs, house cats are not descended from pack animals, so these cats aren’t generally considered innately social.
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• William Taylor, an anthropologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies human-animal relationships, agrees the donkeys in the tomb were not simple pack animals.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024