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.