How to Use compressed in a Sentence

compressed

adjective

• In the red zone, where the field is compressed, speed can be less of a factor.
  — Varun Shankar, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• Then grab a can of compressed air to blast dirt off of the keyboard and ports.
  — David Nield, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
• The result is a more life-like view of the world around you as the Sony can sound a hair more compressed.
  — Michael Andronico, CNN Underscored, 12 Mar. 2021
• Tiger Woods doesn't know how the strange, compressed schedule will affect him for the rest of the year.
  — News Services, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• The longer the cords are entwined or compressed, the greater the risk of damage to the cords—and the greater the risk of death for one or both babies.
  — Pamela Prindle Fierro, Parents, 30 July 2024
• The compressed air, now cool and easier to store, is housed in a large air tank.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
• That means the process to try to pass a map by the end of this year will be more compressed and frantic than usual.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2021
• The compressed length of the pole set is 19 inches, which is longer than the width of nearly all backpacks.
  — Andrew Skurka, Outside Online, 28 June 2018
• But that was five months ago, and now the league is looking at a compressed schedule.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2020
• The compressed rate before the current law was $1 and now that’s been compressed to 93 cents.
  — Mayra Cruz, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2019
• For one, the timeline for planning a farewelling may be much more compressed.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• The compressed schedule caught up to the Spurs down the stretch in Minnesota anyway.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• The spaces between the keys feel a little more compressed as well.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Spray the coils and fins with compressed air to remove any remaining dirt and dust.
  — Samantha Hunter, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2023
• Each bundle weighed about 60 pounds and were in compressed sacks spray-painted to blend in with the terrain.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2022
• But as the high pressure moves east, the marine layer isn’t so compressed.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
• The compressed timeline comes at a moment when Biden and Democrats badly need a win.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 June 2021
• City of Bohane, my first novel, is an epic but a very compressed one.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2021
• The sheets have curled under the pressure of her handwriting, so compressed the pages are more black than white.
  — Elizabeth Koh and Carol Marbin Miller, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• This compressed air gets hot and in turn heats up the forward surface of the falling object.
  — WIRED, 10 Nov. 2023
• The two biggest sources of waste in our system are the large amounts of compressed air needed and the large fraction of droplets that are too big.
  — Kate Murphy, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2021
• The compressed season this year — months’ worth of apartment hunts squeezed into April and May — is adding to the sense of frenzy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• The sounds of the wooden mallet and bells are flat, compressed through my laptop speakers.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• They are made of bamboo and a brown coating of compressed sawdust.
  — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 10 July 2018
• Skinny jeans are more compressed than wide-leg denim and this holds true with this pair.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• This will allow any dirt and dust dislodged by the vacuum or or the compressed air to blow out.
  — Samantha Hunter, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2023
• Submissions should be emailed as one compressed PDF to [e-mail] by 5 p.m.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2021
• For one, brown dwarfs seem to form from compressed gas and dust, not from the extra gas and dust floating around stars, as planets do.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2018
• The teams will play in Miami on a compressed full court (see the first-look image above), unlike the men’s pro Big3 league which plays on a half-court.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• In a gas engine, a small device called a spark plug ignites the compressed fuel-air mixture.
  — Michael Leamy, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024