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Example sentences for: compress

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

Then more work was done to compress and heat the gas by pushing on the piston from the outside.
I intended to ask participants to devise similar but imaginary perqs that perfectly captured the ethos of other media companies, but then I couldn't shake the image of Ved Mehta in spandex, so I think I'd better go lie down and put a cold compress on my forehead.
Explanation: Infirmities prevent him from scribbling much beyond his signature, so he's trained himself to compress the world into verbal hieroglyphics.
This can be done by sucking on the soft spot, by pushing upward on the roof of the infant’s mouth, by holding the child upside down and patting the feet, or by using a warm compress.
When we compress (zip) a file, we are actually rewriting it in a more efficient (though not necessarily more intelligible) language in which we can store the same amount of information in less space.