compression chamber
Example Sentences
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As World War I pulverized any last European claims to civilization, these expat artists turned Zurich into a compression chamber of Western insanity, baptized with the nonsense name Dada.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2021
In a museum, for example: a compression chamber of past, present and future.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
To capture that heat energy they inject a water mist into the compression chamber; the water readily absorbs the heat.
From Forbes • Jan. 6, 2014
One of them remembered having read last year in the professional journal Surgery about patients infected with gas-gangrene bacilli; oxygen treatment in a compression chamber had apparently helped to bring about surprising cures.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Git into the compression chamber quick," I says to him.
From Operation Earthworm by Archibald, Joe
