"weight" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Eventually these were dried and covered with new sediment whose weight compressed the lower layers, causing them to solidify into rocks over millions of years.
- The weight of the ice sheet compressed the land and created depressions.
- When we get up, the weight of our bodies compresses these discs and squeezes out the extra fluid.
- Even lying down, the weight of the torsos would compress their lungs and make them unable to breathe.
- Your weight compresses damp soil, damaging the spongelike web essential to its health.
- He sucked his breath in sharply as her added weight compressed his slashed ribs.
- The weight of falling water compresses the air in the top of the chamber.
- His weight and my purse compressed my lungs, making me gasp for air.
- But those three moons are so massive that their weight has compressed ice within them to the density of rock.
- The weight of the brass pushes the collar bone down and compresses the rib cage.
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