compact
Example Sentences
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Its chic leather case opened like a compact mirror, revealing a silver face with Roman numerals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Compared with larger spacecraft, these compact satellites are much less expensive to launch.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
"Because of their enormous mass and compact size, they strongly bend passing light. Starlight from the same host galaxy can be focused into extraordinarily bright images, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing."
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
He was short, but compact and strong-looking in a way most little kids weren’t, his face pinched in a snarl.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Vocabulary lists containing compact
com-, con-
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