noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pack
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London's largest ballroom at the Grosvenor House Hotel was packed to the rafters as Group representatives enjoyed a wonderful evening.
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We were taken to a room in another building which soon enough was packed to the rafters with people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard, talons open and gleaming.
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By attic ceiling I presume you mean insulation in the roof, between the rafters.
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He hangs the snowflakes from the rafters on lengths of baling twine.
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He told me the story, sitting in my room with the firelight flickering on the ceiling rafters.
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I dangled for three days and three nights in a cocoon of ropes from the rafters in the attic.
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I gazed up into the darkness but the rafters were cloaked in blackness.
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Loud squeaks bounced off the rafters above the corridor sounding like an old waterwheel.
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The river is now used by about 1,000 rafters each season and the economic contribution is negligible.