- a compact style is brief and pithy.
- a short and compendious book.
- a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject.
- a thickset young man.
- a wrestler of compact build.
- compact clusters of flowers.
- compact soil.
- compress the data.
- he was tall and heavyset.
- she compressed her lips.
- stocky legs.
- succinct comparisons.
- Such odd-shaped items do not pack well.
- the spasm contracted the muscle.
- This powder compacts easily.
- wad paper into the box.