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shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another
a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream
How To Use telescoped In A Sentence
- Much as I admire the new theatrical economy, I also feel a lot of American drama suffers from a telescoped urgency.
- The locomotive, tender, and first three cars derailed, and the express car was partially telescoped by the tender.
- In the accident, the cars telescoped
- a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars
- He remounted his motorcycle and paused momentarily to look down into the dried bed of the klong at the smoking telescoped vehicle there, as the hospital staff swarmed all over it.
- The locomotive, tender, and first three cars derailed, and the express car was partially telescoped by the tender.
- They are produced in sections that can be telescoped for portability.
- The hatch popped open, admitting a stale, dry breeze scented with machine oils, exhaust fumes, and sun-baked duracrete, and the ramp telescoped down to the pavement. The Heart of the Warrior
- Their budding relationship and accumulating discoveries, crudely telescoped in this screenplay, unfold in laborious parallel with the flashback 19 th-century affair.
- The dining car of the wrecked train jumped to the side track and ran into the freight engine, which telescoped the car.
