compressive in a sentence

Examples

1. She suffered a compressive fracture of the 12th thoracic vertebra.
2. Compressive strength is a key value for design of structures.
3. Within purely brittle rocks, compressive stress results in faulting.
4. Shear zones accommodate compressive stress by movement on foliation planes.
5. Their compressive proof strength is smaller than tensile proof strength.
6. It is this compressive stress that gives the toughened glass increased strength.
7. It was found that decreasing acetylation created an increase in compressive strength.
8. The compressive technique reached an upper limit with a rod.
9. They have terrible compressive strength because they are hollow cyclinders.
10. This scheme formed a basis for the compressive differencing schemes.