Sentence example with the word 'compressing'

compressing

Definition n. applying pressure

Last update: June 13, 2015


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Mayer made an assumption the converse of that of Seguin, asserting that the whole of the work done in compressing the air was converted into heat, and neglecting the possibility of heat being consumed in doing work within the air itself or being produced by the transformation of internal potential energy.   [Please select]

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"It is an outrage, Godfrey," she said, compressing her thin lips.   [Please select]

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It is like bending or compressing a vegetable growth till it takes a certain form.   [Please select]

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_ There was the poor fool grinning; there he was compressing himself, clambering right into the jaws.   [Please select]

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Brent decidedly, nodding vigorously and compressing her lips more firmly.   [Please select]

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Meunier, tried to accomplish this by compressing air in an inner receptacle.   [Please select]

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He looked at me fixedly, compressing his well-cut lips while he did so.   [Please select]

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She had a straight innocent-looking nose with very thin nostrils, into which she was capable of compressing the entire expression of a face.   [Please select]

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He grappled at once with the Bulgarian, and being, as we have said, a powerful fellow, soon had him on his back with a hand compressing his windpipe, and a knee thrust into his stomach.   [Please select]

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