The tension, anger, rage, and grief of war, ordinarily diffused among a whole people, became compressed into the narrow zone of the White House.
Layers of snow falling on its barren, windswept surface become compressed into ice layers, which constantly move outward to the peripheral glaciers; the Jakobshavn Glacier, often moving 100 feet (30 metres) a day, is among the world's fastest glaciers.
During the Permian and Triassic periods, red sandstones were deposited under arid, desert conditions and these became compressed into beds of shales, New Red Sandstone and Manchester marls, alternating with layers of gritstone.
The lens fibre cells degrade all membrane-bound organelles and the older lens cells become compressed into the nucleus of the lens by the continuous formation of new fibres at the surface.
Consequently, the macroscopic voltage response becomes compressed.
Our organs become compressed and are under a great deal of pressure.
Rather than studying living nature as a whole, a κόσμος, nature becomes condensed and compressed into a particularly intriguing but highly demanding entity (a).
At maturity, the seed coat became dehydrated and compressed into a thin layer that enveloped the embryo (Figs. 6h, 7h).
"Over the years it has become shorn of all context and compressed into a free-floating clip that has now become his epitaph," Godwin wrote.
The planet is compressed into a basket of fabrics.
Eight courses and an internship are compressed into a year.
