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
First he went to Newport to ask the Navy for an old compression chamber.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a hiss as the air, hitherto compressed to two hundred pounds to the square inch, rushed from its compression chamber, the deadly missile sped on its way.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
