compacted

Example Sentences

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Way-marked pistes are generally protected by pre-emptive avalanche blasting, and their snow is flattened and compacted to further reduce the risk.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

The researchers also found that synthetic condensates closely resemble compacted chromatin found in cells.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

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

He has his field light and is swinging its beam repeatedly over a welter of compacted wreckage in the far corner-stones and cement and splintered wood.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr