Example sentences for: compresses

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

  • Not so much a melting-pot as a “land of unlimited impossibilities,” Israel compresses a host of sights and lifestyles into a small area, offering a cornucopia of experiences for visitors.

  • Before I go back to bed and try to shake this damn flu, one more thing: the lovely piece in today's New York Times advertising column about the "Cash" machine, which digitally compresses the pauses and long syllables out of talk shows so that local stations can sell more commercial time.

  • The vacuum holds the cloth firmly and compresses the thickness of the lay, typically by half.

  • But I think that the apparent brevity, which depends in part on whether you count words or syllables, is due much more to the heavy inflection of Russian that compresses meaning in single words.


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