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noun

compartment

a space into which an area is subdivided

In a sentence

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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