Compartment

Examples

• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No one in the compartment said anything. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Two doorways should be left by cutting out a single studding in each compartment upon the most convenient side. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A ballast of water was carried in a compartment under each car. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There were many men standing in the corridor and the men in the compartment all looked at us when we came in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The elderly lady did not travel in the same compartment, and they did not notice what became of her on reaching the London terminus. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The fifth compartment represents the clown as having jumped over pantaloon's head, and coming down to the ground; and in each succeeding division his farther descent is shown, till, in No. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The gas, on entering the tube, _a_, presses against the upper surface of the compartment that happens to be then above it, and tends to turn the inner cylinder round. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There were some aviators in the compartment who did not think much of me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To obviate the bad results of punctures he proposed also to make his tire in sectional compartments, so that if one compartment was punctured the others would still hold good. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The disc is divided into eight or ten compartments, in each one of which the same figures are repeated, though the positions of one or more of them are changed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Its most familiar form is in a boxlike arrangement, divided longitudinally by a narrow ridge of two compartments, one of which is roughly some three times larger than the other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Pots are used containing the materials to be melted and not heated in the presence of the burning fuel, but by the heated gases in separate compartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The interior is divided into three compartments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Midway between the ends of the building a cross wall should be built, and on this a sill should be laid upon which to erect the partition which divides the silo into two compartments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Strong bulkheads, and double bottoms with air-tight compartments, impart buoyancy in case of collision. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Boilers are placed in separate water-tight compartments, so that damage to one does not disable the others. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To obviate the bad results of punctures he proposed also to make his tire in sectional compartments, so that if one compartment was punctured the others would still hold good. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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