telescoped

Example Sentences

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But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2022

An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2020

There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2018

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2017

The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith