Sentence examples for compartment from inspiring English sources
compartment
A room, or section, or chamber
- "Two men were seated in a well-lighted compartment of a third-class carriage."
The word "compartment" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to a separate section or division within a larger structure, especially one that is designed to contain a specific item or group of items. For example, "The desk had several compartments for organizing notebooks and writing utensils.".
A Washington Post article published on Wednesday revealed vague details of a police document that quoted a prisoner who had been placed in the same police van as Gray – though in a separate compartment – as saying Gray had been "trying to injure himself".
He described how HMS Vanguard's missile compartment doubled up as a gym, leading to potentially disastrous mishaps when seamen dropped weights near the boat's missile firing system.
If they are up to standard, then their labels can join the glove compartment archive.
The whistleblower also revealed that there had allegedly been a fire in the missile compartment when the boatwas in harbour.
If they are good, I soak the labels off and stick them in the glove compartment of my car as references for future shopping trips.
In January a two-year-old in Florida died after climbing into the front seat of his family's car, finding a gun in the glove compartment and shooting himself in the chest.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), under intense pressure from America, announced a series of stern measures against Hamas and Islamic Jihad.The bomber, a 29-year-old imam in a Hebron mosque, married with a family of his own, chose a double-compartment bus crammed with Orthodox families returning from prayers at the Western Wall.
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