| To encourage compactness and flowering, prune around the edges of the plant and very lightly over the top. |
| The compactness of the oratory contributed to the reverence and respect which was to be found everywhere. |
| Some thought it lacked the concentrated compactness of the other two, while others found insights in its voluminousness. |
| I am exhausted, but that ground is in better shape than it has been for years, judging by the compactness of the soil when I started. |
| Welles liked the brevity and compactness, the swiftness and shock of a good short story. |
| This is a characteristic of much of Elgar's symphonic writing, though without the terse compactness of the Brahms model. |
