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How to use the word compartments in a Sentence?

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I’ve had this crossbody for years, and it’s made specifically for travel, it has a spot for my passport, Kindle, a leash for my keys and several zipper compartments to keep things safe and secure. When traveling solo, I try to only use crossbody bags and make sure they have either multiple compartments or some sort of ‘ lock ’ to keep my personal belongings safe as I explore. This one from Lo Sons fits the bill perfectly.

– Karen Delgado

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we're seeing at the border is just a lot of it. We're seeing of large loads of fentanyl and not only in powder and pills, but we're seeing mixed loads of fentanyl with methamphetamine powder and pills, and it's its on a daily basis… that those drugs are being seized at the border, both in cars, in various panels, hidden compartments in cars, but also on body carriers, people that are being recruited at the border to bring it over with several sometimes kilos of fentanyl concealed on their person.

– Randy Grossman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Importations are only from slaughter houses and establishments that are located in ASF-free zones and also source their slaughter stock from registered and supervised disease-free compartments.

– Xolani Dlamini

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was quite a violent explosion, if the explosion had been a few feet further [the ship] wouldn’t have stayed afloat. No water got up into the forward compartments— it was a very clean break.

– Abner Read

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Usually what happens when a vessel is sinking is the master will ensure all compartments and hatches are shut so as to maintain buoyancy, on the Thunder, all the hatches had been opened, including the hatch leading to the fish hold.

– Bob Barker

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments.

– Dale Carnegie

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13 years ago

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