Sentence examples for it compressed from inspiring English sources

When TNT in the Trinity device exploded, it compressed plutonium atoms inside.

"The Fate of Africa" was Martin Meredith's monumental study of 50 years of postcolonial African history, all of it compressed into a single, mesmerizing volume.

In addition, while income inequality was high before the Depression, during the 1930s and 1940s it compressed radically, Professor Conley said.

He liked to imagine time on vastly different scales: as humans experience it (normal); as whales experience it (expanded); and as birds and insects experience it (compressed).

In a short while, the weight of the mattress seemed unbearable; it compressed his neck and spine and sent a shaft of pain down his back.

But when I turned the chair upright, I saw that I'd pulled the fabric so tight it compressed the cushion noticeably — to the point where Luca, my youngest son, deemed it "a little weird looking".

Second, like most of its rivals, it compresses your recording as a Windows Media, or WMA file.

And when it does that, it compresses it, and it literally heats up through compression," said Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.

"When you apply pressure to it, it compresses," Adam Goldston said.

As it drops in altitude, it compresses, becoming even dryer and hotter.

Only if the pipe's slow will it compress and optimise.