compacting
- present participle of compact.
Example Sentences
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“We need to stop the overdraft of compacting aquifers,” Knight and Lees wrote, suggesting that efforts be strategically “targeted to the deeper parts of the aquifer system.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024
And because the ice is stable, the thick annual layers can accumulate for centuries, compacting into ice.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2024
However, there are also many disadvantages of compacting your lifestyle into a space not much bigger than a motel room.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024
Deep in Antarctica’s frigid interior, fluffy, air-filled snow accumulates layer by layer, compacting into slabs of ice over millennia.
From Scientific American • Feb. 9, 2023
After picking for two long hours, Roberto helped Mama make more room in her sack by lifting it upright and shaking it several times up and down, compacting the cotton to the bottom.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
