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

She pleaded with the workers to help retrieve her belongings from the compactor.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2023

They’re going tent to tent, clearing them before throwing whatever items remain in a trash compactor.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

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