COMPRESS in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for COMPRESS, such as:

1. Her lips compressed into a thin line.
2. Would you, you could not compress him.
3. His face was gloomy and his lips compressed.
4. She has to compress the package under her arm.
5. Wood blocks compress a great deal under pressure.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPRESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
compress
 v.  close; squeeze or press together; contract
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
2  Would you, you could not compress him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
3  We compress the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing what they are.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
4  The countess had a headache brought on by all the noise and turmoil and was lying down in the new sitting room with a vinegar compress on her head.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIII
5  "I am not to blame for having tried every means to compress it," said Planchet.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
6  If anyone comes meddling again," said he, emitting the words separately through his thin compressed lips, "I will throw him down there.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
7  Her eyes were dry and glistening, her lips compressed, her cheeks sunken.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII
8  With compressed and parched lips and dry fixed eyes, she sat at the window, uneasily watching the people who drove past and hurriedly glancing round at anyone who entered the room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVIII
9  His face was gloomy and his lips compressed.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
10  The wounded, bandaged with rags, with pale cheeks, compressed lips, and knitted brows, held on to the sides of the carts as they were jolted against one another.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
11  His face with its fine straight nose would have been handsome had it not been for his thin, compressed, twitching lips and dull, gloomy, fixed eyes.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
12  Each drop tried to spread out and occupy as much space as possible, but others striving to do the same compressed it, sometimes destroyed it, and sometimes merged with it.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XV
13  Countess Mary turned red and then pale, but continued to sit with head bowed and lips compressed and gave her husband no reply.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
14  I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
15  His lips were thin, and though, as it seemed, compressed by thought, there was a pleasant twitch at their corners now and then.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Example Sentence:
1  You can compress huge amounts of data on to a CD-ROM.
2  Firmly compress the soil in the pot so that the plant is secure.
3  Wood blocks compress a great deal under pressure.
4  She has to compress the package under her arm.
5  With a supply of compressed air, the large balloon inflated in a matter of seconds.
6  Her lips compressed into a thin line.
7  The miners used rock drills and compressed air to drive through hard rock.
8  When you download the font it may be in a compressed format, such as a zip file.
9  This paper surveys a variety of data compression methods spanning almost forty years of research, from the work of Shannon.