Synonym: bundle, mail boat, mailboat, package, packet boat, parcel. Similar words: packed, jacket, bracket, backpack, rocket, bucket, rickets, pack. Meaning: ['pækɪt] n. 1. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together 2. (computer science) a message or message fragment 3. a small package or bundle 4. a boat for carrying mail.
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91. Lady Thatcher's post was still heavy, despite her exile, and every packet and parcel was carefully checked.
92. These organize the workers into teams, get the contracts, control the funds - and generally make a packet.
93. He tossed the empty packet on to the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table.
94. So she pulled out a rolled up tenner and a small packet.
95. The eggs of this species are shed in a packet - that is several stuck together - and sink.
96. Johnny fished in his trouser pocket for a somewhat battered packet of cigarettes and a slim gold lighter.
97. Packet You'd think that adding £6,000 on to their existing mortgage of £36,(www.Sentencedict.com)000 would cost them a packet.
98. Images of desperate freedom-fighters handing the packet round behind the barricade.
99. Top target is likely to be cigarettes and extra tax could push the price up by between 12 and 15p a packet.
100. In the supermarkets of Colombo and Kandy, Puffa-Puffa-rice breakfast cereal is on sale for the equivalent of three dollars a packet.
101. Sergeant Davis gave the oldest Arab he could see two pounds of sugar and a big packet of tea.
102. Each packet includes a leaflet giving full instructions for successful cultivation.
103. The packet is posted on the electronic bulletin board, and Felton himself reads them all, responding to many himself.
104. Just as the pause edges towards the ridiculous he reaches into his jacket for this packet of cheroots.
105. I carried the fortune of coins in a small packet of red paper in my jeans.
106. Barry bit the corner of the packet to open it.
107. Jean-Paul paused at a kiosk to buy a packet of Gauloises.
108. He ambled towards us smirking, tapping a packet of air-mail envelopes on his palm.
109. Mr Yarrow paused a moment before placing a wage packet into it.
110. ARPA-supported researchers applied this packet concept to their network-building projects.
111. Mr Smith must learn that hitting the pay packet hits the housing market, and that hits the institutions.
112. I have a look round for the fag packet, but it's gone.
113. According to the packet, the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven.
114. At the end of every month there is a packet awaiting his collection from the main post office in Vienna.
115. Perhaps I'd better put the kettle on and crack open a packet of my finest custard creams.
116. Keep a packet of pitta bread in the freezer, heat up under the grill from frozen and cut into fingers.
117. He would leave the packet open so that the desk sergeant saw they were not getting a parcel bomb.
118. The 1986 Finance Act introduced tax relief on regular giving to charities deducted from the giver's pay packet.
119. It will cost me a packet to travel down to watch the rescheduled match!
120. An old paint tin, a burst packet of sheep dip.