How to Use pack off in a Sentence

pack off

verb

• The film centers on a boy packed off from the city to his family’s ancestral village.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
• My aunt—and dozens of other relatives—were among the sixty-thousand people removed and packed off to live in areas far from the city center.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
• In 2019, Izzy Cicirello was 13 and, like a lot of other middle schoolers, packed off to a summer day camp.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• His second child—Lucia’s baby, a girl named Ginevra—was removed from her mother’s care, briefly placed in a foundling hospital, and then packed off to a wet nurse in the countryside.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
• The sad thing was that within days of becoming an apprentice, he was packed off to hospital for a cartilage operation on a knee that, 10 years later, would bring a permanent end to his career.
  — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 17 July 2026