compact
adjective
compacter
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a word derived from
compact.
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
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 Samuel Butler
The clouds were still heavy, but gradually rolled into compacter masses, giving promise of breaking away.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
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 Henry Seton Merriman
