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

One of them remembered having read last year in the professional journal Surgery about patients infected with gas-gangrene bacilli; oxygen treatment in a compression chamber had apparently helped to bring about surprising cures.

From Time Magazine Archive

And that's how we knew about Mr. Fields' old compression chamber, and all like that.

From We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Freas, Kelly