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How to use compress in a sentence

A hot or cold compress may ease pain, though finding out which works better could require some trial and error, Adams says.

No one wants to go fishing for a warm compress when their arm hurts.

Unlike MP3 and other digitally compressed formats, no audio quality is lost when pressing a record.

The second operation is to compress this gas which is done by an upward stroke of the piston as shown at Fig. 5, B.

AVIATION ENGINESVICTOR WILFRED PAG

Such is the wonderful story which we have endeavored to compress within the limits of these brief pages.

LOUIS PHILIPPEJOHN S. C. (JOHN STEVENS CABOT) ABBOTT

All that I can compress within the limits of a single lecture, by way of its elucidation, it shall be my aim to accomplish.

Another difficulty has been to compress the volume into the small limits desired by the family.

All the passions play their part freely, nor do the rules of propriety compress any feeling with the Greeks.

My heart's desire is to compress these Strehlen Diplomatic horse-dealings into the smallest conceivable bulk.

If the abdominal muscles are much relaxed and the hip-bones prominent, a compress of two or three towels will be wanted.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985