compacted

Example Sentences

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On Thursday, mangled metal screeched as an excavator compacted the skeletons of former homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

Fill and soil are compacted onto the slab and topped with several layers of asphalt.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Liz Weir said she was sometimes driven out of her home by the smell of compacted rubbish from a waste management firm at the harbour.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Matter was more densely compacted in these lumps than elsewhere.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan