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Six example sentences with compartment, each labelled with its topic.
Their sleeper compartment held four strangers, one shared thermos, and a window that would not close past Zagreb.
Travel
Fire regulations turned the open floor into a sealed compartment every thirty meters, invisible once the ceilings went up.
Architecture
The camera bag has a padded compartment for the long lens and a stiff divider that never stays upright.
Photography
The liner's builders boasted of sixteen watertight sections, yet water spilled from one compartment into the next over the bulkhead tops.
History
A bento box keeps rice in one compartment and pickles in another, so nothing bleeds its color into the fish.
Cooking
The drone's battery sits in a sealed compartment behind the camera, held by a latch that survives hard landings.
Technology
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