"compressed against" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the condition of something that is held tightly between two surfaces. For example: The doorframe was compressed against the edge of the door, trapping the key inside.
Compression was initiated by raising the LCP until the aggregate became compressed against the UCP.
The artery compressed against the vertebra at the top of his spine, right at the base of the skull, resulting in a hemorrhage.
The thallus tends to be ribbonlike in form and is often compressed against the substratum to which it is generally attached by threadlike structures called rhizoids.
The woman in "Embryonic" is curled into a fetal position and compressed against the picture plane; she clutches a pair of root vegetables as if they were weapons that will help her break out of her confinement.
Evidence from these zones suggests that the east coasts of India and southern Australia were compressed against western North America.The rest of the map of Columbia is equally hard to imagine.
And while most breast research has focused on vertical movement during exercise, Dr. Scurr's study showed that breasts moved in three dimensions: up and down, side to side, and even in and out as breasts compressed against the chest and heaved outward during movement.
The oval windows with criss-cross lines are metaphors for "balls compressing against hard surfaces," Mr. Kanner said.
Cardinal Ratzinger's commentary said the images were not to be taken literally, but rather "synthesize and compress against a single background facts which extend through time".
We introduce a new gastrostomy tube design and prototype that inhibits leakage by using an adjustable external retaining member, which compresses against the feeding tube shaft thereby preventing dynamic friction.
The bubbles may compress against the endothelial wall, obstructing and stripping the endothelial cells (Nossum et al. 1999).
Isthmic nodules are especially prone to stress concentration effects because they tend to produce a focal skin bulge with uneven contact under the flat transducer and be compressed directly against the unyielding trachea.
