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packing material

n. any material used especially to protect something [syn: packing, wadding]

Usage examples of "packing material".

I believe we can finish tomorrow if we can find more packing material.

And that the packing material was a local plant essential to the diet of this creature.

The same plant Whittlesey had inadvertently used as packing material in the fateful crate of relics sent to the Museum from the Upper Xingu almost a decade before.

An hour later, the last door was ripped open and the companions stared at yet another empty storage unit, scraps of wood and packing material floating in tiny puddles from the earlier deluge.

Instantly a dozen fires sprang up from the bits of packing material and other litter scattered about the floor of the room.

Into them the china has been thrown with no packing material between items, so part of Daniel’.

The lid was secured by more transparent adhesive strip, and the inside filled to the top with pellets of a practically weightless packing material, again new to him.

The older man carefully set the beamer back in its packing material and closed the stuffing around it.

He helped himself to a handful of the packing material which had come around a jar of candied rennet, and snuffled noisily.

They eased along the bottom of a chasm, crowded on either side by great broken cartons full of crystal and porcelain and lizard nests, the packing material sodden with the excrement of the generations of babies who had hatched there.

Heaps of trash were everywhere, string and paper and excelsior packing material, along with numerous crumpled cardboard boxes.

The packing material was twentieth-century Styrofoam chips, not the tangled mounds of vegetable fiber that the PRC still used.