Example Sentences

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Sitting on it, even in slow-motion, creates the sound of the Tin Man being crushed to death in an industrial trash compacter.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2014

He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should do better to seek a less panoramic, a compacter subject.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

The two men came forward together, Roden slouching and heavy-shouldered, but well dressed; Von Holzen smaller, compacter, with a thoughtful, still face and calculating eyes.

From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton

That of the pyefinch," she added, "is of much compacter form, warmer, and more comfortable.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel