Sentence Examples

1. The end result of the editing process was that while his text, because of all the extra sauce in it, had be-come a bulky and slow-moving station wagon, along the way it shrank down into a nervous and flexible compact SUV28.
2. Lance sat in the backseat of the compact car and Arthur in front with Jenny.
3. Cecilia explained how she almost had enough money to buy a more compact knitting machine for herself.
4. He appeared to be a man about forty years of age, with fine, handsome features, and a tall, well-shaped figure his hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his face rather pale, his teeth magnificent.
5. These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.
6. I began to get uneasy, and worked away with all my might, for I verily believe the idiots supposed that I had entered into a compact with the devil, and that, in short, what I was now doing was nothing better than it should be.
7. We feel it advisable only to state, in brief, that the result desired was brought to pass and that the Prefect fulfilled punctually, although with reluctance, the terms of his compact with the Chevalier.
8. Five storeys below a wide window, quartz and mica twinkled sidereally from the compact desert sand.
9. So as we all took hands our solemn compact was made.
10. He is of a well-knit and compact frame of body, neither robust nor remarkably otherwise.