compactor
Example Sentences
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Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Rita Cogay, who operates a compactor at the site, told AFP on Friday she had stepped outside to get a drink of water just moments before the building she had been in was crushed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Each garbage compactor — which holds about four tons — was contaminated with medical and hazardous waste, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024
The police learned that linens are taken to a cleaning service with an on-site compactor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
He was afraid, he said, of the escalators in the Atlanta airport, which looked like the teeth of some giant trash compactor.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
