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Example sentences for "small compass"

  • It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

  • To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement.

  • Defn: To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

  • To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.

  • Because, by combining a great quantity of material in a small compass, they afford great warmth.

  • This circumstance arises greatly from the small compass in which a number of moving parts must be included.

  • To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

  • Within a small compass we have here gathered together all that is interesting in connexion with the great undertaking of the present year--an undertaking which must form a most important chapter in the world's history.

  • A great deal of information in a small compass, and the author has availed himself of the latest authorities.

  • A valuable little publication, full of information in a small compass, creating an appetite for deeper investigation.

  • Condense, bring into a small compass, bring toward a central point.

  • In a nut shell~, In a small compass, IN NUCE.

  • In a small compass, there is much new information in these Travels, though not so much respecting the ancient country of the Ethiopians, in which Mr. Legh went beyond most former travellers, as could have been wished.

  • A most judicious and instructive book, noticing all that is really interesting in this route, and nothing else, and thus conveying much information in a small compass.

  • In the first place, great multitudes in small compass, who were forced to industry and labour, or else to want.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small compass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    neither the; small animals; small area; small bottle; small bunch; small clearing; small degree; small deposits; small detachment; small family; small iron; small islands; small libraries; small nations; small orifice; small parties; small percentage; small plain; small spring; small stock; small telescope; small town; small tube; small wire; smaller scale; stopped again