Sentence examples for compact rather than from inspiring English sources
It has the appearance of a mid-market "compact" rather than a down-market "tabloid".
Seth imagines that Democratic N.P.V. states might try to "back out" of the compact rather than let a Republican who had won a national majority take office.
Risotti were more in the style of a rich rice pilaf than a risotto: tasty, but soft and compact, rather than creamy and firm-textured.
Sony's first attempt last year at a "compact" (rather than a cut-down smaller and cheaper "mini" smartphone with a poorer specification– as Samsung, HTC and others create from their flagship smartphones) was the Xperia Z1 compact.
Having peaked with the 6.44in Xperia Z Ultra phablet, Sony's latest smartphone has a 4.3in screen – far smaller than the 5in of the Samsung Galaxy S4 or 4.7in HTC One – and is being pitched as a "premium compact" rather than a budget small Android phone.
Lucian Smithers, sales and marketing director at Pocket Living, prefers to describe the properties as compact rather than "micro".
We stress that the distinction between compact and non-compact exploration, rather than the one between anomalous and normal diffusion, is the proper criterion to analyze the search dynamics of transcription factors.
New York bars and restaurants are discovering the appeal of serving suds in compact glasses rather than tub-size mugs.
At one point Ms. Molina stopped suddenly and briefly, seeming to draw the movement into her small, compact body rather than dancing it out.
They were just 9percentt of the market in May, when for the first time since 1992 the country's top-selling vehicle was a car — the Honda Civic compact sedan — rather than a truck.
Observed telescopically, they have a relatively round compact appearance rather than the chaotic patchy shapes of other nebulae hence their name, which was given because of their resemblance to planetary disks when viewed with the instruments of the late 1700s, when the first planetary nebulae were discovered.
