In one corner of the room a crowd of Afrikanders swayed in a compact mass, as if eager to wreak their vengeance on someone, while held like a rat in the jaws of a terrier was the man from Muizenberg, his captor being Jan van Eindhovengen.
The foremost of the advancing Germans appeared in sight at a distance of about eighty yards from the devoted New Zealanders--bombers and riflemen in a compact mass--the advance guard of the formidable counter-attack.
In the process of churning; the membranes of casein which surround each of the little globules constituting the cream are broken, and the fat of which they are composed becomes a compact mass known as butter.
The cream should be a compact mass of considerable thickness, and may be divided with a knife into squares of convenient size before skimming.
If it will retain the imprint of the fingers and falls and a compact mass or a damp, clammy, or sticky to the touch, it is by no means the best.
So crowded were they that as they advanced they seemed a compact mass, those outside coming along close to the bushes in which the boys lay.
They kept in a compact mass, which the English ships could not break.
At a distance of a hundred yards, on each side, marched a body of fifty in compact mass, thereby sheltering the main body from any sudden attack.
A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.
To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm.
As the mound rises nearly fifty feet over the plain, we were obliged to tunnel along the walls of the building within it, through a compact mass of rubbish, consisting almost entirely of loose bricks.
The column set itself in motion in a compact mass, at a quick pace, and with drums beating at its head.
At that place their progress was delayed by a compact mass of people who were gathered near the gate, in the center of which was a turnstile intended to keep horses and wagons from entering the square.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compact mass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
