Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, in literature, Marcel Proust was using memory to complicate more straightforward storytelling, and it wouldn’t be long before modernists like Woolf and Joyce were compressing, dilating, and folding time in half.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016

The attending wandered in as I began to remove the lamina, the back wall of the vertebrae, whose bony overgrowths, along with ligaments beneath, were compressing the nerves.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

Viktor Palus, a neurology specialist who carried out her surgery, said he had to "remove several blood clots and fracture fragments which were compressing her spinal cord".

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2013

His shoulders hunched and his neck sank into them, as if he were compressing under the weight of Dad’s praise.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

His repulsion for her deepened until it seemed as if actual fingers were compressing his throat, stopping his breath.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph