Example sentences for: compounded

How can you use “compounded” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Windows is compounded from the Icelandic words vindr `wind' + auga `eye,' a window being the eye of a house.

  • The effect is compounded by the steady pressure on the public consciousness of ad copy, which consistently overpraises fashion goods and so debases their real aesthetic value.

  • Yet, this nonsense is compounded.

  • British anger with France was compounded over the weekend by the revelation that French cows are partly fed on processed human excrement.

  • For me, Rimbaud never graduated from being an enfant terrible to become a major poet; he only compounded the cliché inaugurated by Villon, that is, combining absinthe-fueled dissipation on slender means with a vacillating devotion to his art.


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