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compartment

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The EFPs were hidden in a compartment under an unassuming-looking house.

“We used to go to the Crimea for two weeks every June,” said the couple sharing our train compartment.

When he learned his official diagnosis—acute compartment syndrome—he mocked it a little.

So Ogorzow was listening in the darkened compartment for the sound of anyone pulling a door open.

They sat across from each other in the otherwise empty train compartment and made small talk.

Delancy opened the glove compartment in the instrument board and took out a pair of field glasses.

One of the gunmen who crouched on the floor of the rear compartment cursed quietly and without interruption for nearly a minute.

Sure enough, a High-Pockets Jones was stepping out of the second compartment of the cabinet.

The ladies, the baby and the maid had a compartment of the sleeping car to themselves and journeyed comfortably enough.

He could take care of him when he got inside, got to that stubby .38 he had slipped into the glove compartment just in case.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to compartment, such as: alcove, carriage, cell, chamber, cubicle, and locker.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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