compacted

Example Sentences

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The fibers are then compacted even more tightly to fit inside the nucleus.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025

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

Liz Weir said she was sometimes driven out of her home by the smell of compacted rubbish from a waste management firm at the harbour.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

Beneath the carpet is a concrete slab that rests on earth that was compacted twenty years ago by heavy machinery.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman