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"compressed lips" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is trying to control their emotions, for example, "She kept her compressed lips to stop herself from crying."
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Stein was the naughty child who wants to have fun no matter what, and Toklas was the grownup with tightly compressed lips.
The Yoruba faces, with blank, almond-shaped eyes, pronounced cheekbones, delicately flared nostrils, and lightly compressed lips, are serious and serene.
Stein was the naughty child who wants to have fun no matter what, and Toklas was the grown-up with tightly compressed lips.
She wrinkled her chin and slightly puffed her compressed lips.
The compressed lips suggest his principled reticence, his practice of keeping his own counsel.
I remember his compressed lips, the distasteful huffing of his breath through his nostrils as he worked.
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Compressed her lips.
Collins compressed his lips slightly.
Ms. Webb compressed her lips, and after a moment of silence, offered only, "I like to take a very simple silhouette and pump it up".
You're sure you're on the reach of the river that you think you are, are you?" Siderius compressed his lips and simply nodded yes.
He smiled, compressing his lips that were so pink they might have been painted.
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