compacted

Example Sentences

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Fill and soil are compacted onto the slab and topped with several layers of asphalt.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

These layers of ice, compacted over centuries, perhaps millennia, form an archive of climate indicators, yielding data on past snowfall, temperatures, atmosphere and dust.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Dozens of schools have been closed across the north-west of England this week since a flurry of snow turned to compacted ice.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025

As agricultural wells have drained water from aquifers, underground clay layers have compacted and the ground surface has been sinking as much as 1 foot per year in some areas.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

A lump of compacted clay sped like a cannon directly at the spot where Butler’s head had been barely a second previously.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer