compounded

How To Use compounded In A Sentence

• The most serious incident was compounded by the failure of a battery powered backup generator in the air traffic control tower.
• His songs had gone from sublime to bizarre, compounded by his friendship with oddball lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
• This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
• All propositions are simple or compounded of simples.
• He had compounded a number of venial failings with the mortal sin of adultery.
• The refusal of judges to give any interviews, under cover of antiquated ‘rules’ which a long forgotten lord chancellor had invented, compounded the sense that they were all, or almost all, malevolent recluses.
• It said the impact could be compounded if other areas of economic weakness emerge. Times, Sunday Times
• Anaxagoras compounded this heresy by alleging that the stars were insensate bodies as well, stones carried in orbit by the rapid movement of the heavens and that occasionally a stone might detach itself to become a falling star.
• The convoy itself encountered numerous difficulties; mechanical and logistical problems were compounded by stormy clashes of personality.
• As an outcome of meditative experience, whatever appearances may arise can be transformed through meditative insight into a realization of the nature of all things as insubstantial, uncompounded, and only existing interdependently.