Sentence examples for like a compact from inspiring English sources

The new cards are so stiff that they sound like a compact disc when dropped.

The printer opens like a compact with a neat, satisfying click.

And "OC/DC," which runs almost to 23 minutes, covers so much ground that it feels like a compact summation of Mr. Berne's style.

Forget that Volkswagen's CrossBlue Coupé concept looks more like a compact four-door crossover than a coupe and that it isn't actually blue.

Un Lun Dun has a sun like a compact disc, a moon like the spindle of a cat's eye and roving headlights with no cars.

August Darnell, or Kid Creole, runs his band like a compact Broadway revue, with Kid Creole -- a suave would-be Casanova who's not always lucky -- flanked by the Coconuts, who are both all-purpose temptresses and a chorus line.

In this regard, using the A300 can feel a lot like using a compact camera.

There's almost an unspoken compact between director and audience in a movie like this, a compact of pleasure in everything looking so good.

The center has two acres of display gardens packed with fall-blooming perennials like Winston Churchill, a compact red aster, above right, and Heavy Metal, an upright blue switch grass (shown near the gazebo).

The suit was over whether or not digital distribution of a song should be treated like sales of a compact disc, or a "license" to a third party company like iTunes or eMusic.

The key difference from these existing work is that we investigate clusters of contact residues that are densely interacted like a biclique in a compact region where the compactness is measured by the water exclusion principle.