COMPARTMENT in a Sentence

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It also had hints for making snow forts, including "make sure to include an icy compartment to store your vodka."

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPARTMENT
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compartment
 n.  one of parts or spaces into which an area is subdivided; separate room, section, or chamber
Classic Sentence:
1  "Countess Vronskaya is in that compartment," said the smart guard, going up to Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
2  Vronsky followed the guard to the carriage, and at the door of the compartment he stopped short to make room for a lady who was getting out.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
3  He paused near his compartment, waiting for her to get out.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
4  Going onto the platform, Vronsky left his mother and disappeared into a compartment.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 2
5  Each house consisted of two compartments, and each family at Lebrun's possessed a compartment for itself, fitted out with all the essential paraphernalia of the bath and whatever other conveniences the owners might desire.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the uninhabited compartments of the hovel.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT
7  There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret compartments of bigotry.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
8  We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the upper mine, of the great political, revolutionary, and philosophical excavation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
9  The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small change; in the other lay six napoleons.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
10  Three compartments divided the coffer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
11  Early on the following morning he commenced the removal of his riches, and ere nightfall the whole of his immense wealth was safely deposited in the compartments of the secret locker.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
12  The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  It also had hints for making snow forts, including "make sure to include an icy compartment to store your vodka."
2  Led by her, I passed from compartment to compartment, from passage to passage, of a large and irregular building.
3  He was in the same compartment, when the other inmate appeared to pass out after snorting something.
4  The bag is divided into separate compartments.
5  Your pencil box has several compartments.
6  The first-class compartments are in front.
7  Apple announced a list of vulnerabilities that would command big bounties, including $25,000 for ways around Apple's digital compartments and into its customers' data, $50,000 for bugs that give hackers a way into iCloud data, and $200,000 to turn over critical vulnerabilities in Apple's firmware — the software that lies closest to the bare metal of the machine.