Sentence examples for has been compressed into from inspiring English sources

In Dubai, for instance, what might once have been the product of 100 years of urban growth has been compressed into a decade or so.

It's a profound meat experience, as though a 20-ounce rib-eye has been compressed into a container the size of a squash ball.

But the pace of change in Myanmar, where army generals introduced a form of democracy two years ago, has been compressed into months, not decades.

The country is now much reduced, but a lot of the wealth of that mini-empire has been compressed into its small area.

"The whole re-equipment cycle has been compressed into a period of about three years as opposed to the more normal five to six years," said Doug McVitie, managing director of Arran Aerospace, a consulting firm in Dinan, France.

For all its jagged cuts and shrieking violin stabs, it somehow seems as substantial as an entire second act, as if half an hour's dramatic incident has been compressed into one dense and horrible mass.

My inner carnivore was sated, as the work of a day had been compressed into an hour.

It was as though a cumulonimbus cloud had been compressed into bird shape and given stern yellow eyes.

In these audio clips, several weeks' worth of Kepler measurements of a star have been compressed into a few seconds.

(Travails, of course, are crucial to the enterprise -- otherwise, why watch?) Their 39 days on Pulau Tiga have been compressed into 13 one-hour episodes.

In the villages of Rach Kien, Bung Cong, and Rach Bap, the sequence of attack, evacuation, and demolition had been compressed into a single day.