A miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to telescope the events of five hundred years into one history lecture. From Dictionary.com.
Of course I have 'telescoped' my comments, necessarily leaving out a lot. From Wordnik.com. [Rand Contra The Ayn Rand Institute—Coda] Reference
As Whiting phrases it, he has "telescoped" the sonata form. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
ODINGA: He has already telescoped his agenda for Africa. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2009] Reference
Remember, this whole case is telescoped into a few days. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Vote - November 29, 2000] Reference
The man doubled up as if part of him had been telescoped. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
He raised the CAR-15, extending the telescoped buttstock. From Wordnik.com. [The End Is Coming]
Helical rod-trees that telescoped out, seeking more starlight. From Wordnik.com. [Furious Gulf]
The helmet computer telescoped his vision and shifted to infrared. From Wordnik.com. [Furious Gulf]
Thought is rushed upon thought and sentence telescoped into sentence. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
And I've telescoped a lot of it, but its so far back, that I can't recall. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, November 26, 1990. Interview L-0145. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
History has, more often than not, telescoped and simplified what happens. From Wordnik.com. [April 1865: The Month That Saved America] Reference
I murmured as my entire life telescoped into that single moment's contact. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamfall]
The successive couples had by this time been telescoped into a single group. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Holland]
Rourke telescoped out the stock on the CAR-15, ripping the scope covers away. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
Flying the two ships was a telescoped course in the development of helicopters. From Wordnik.com. [Chickenhawk]
In the second, the screen is telescoped through a casing that is already in place. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
I remember fighting off nausea as the story telescoped through layers of sickness. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Fox: Deep Gray] Reference
The hour of interval was telescoped in your waking consciousness to a few seconds. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
As she reached the plane a silver ladder telescoped down to her from below the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
If the casing above is set in place the well screen must later be telescoped into place. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Smith switched off the transmitter, telescoped the aerial and glanced across at Schaffer. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Sometime in the second part of the this century the Court telescoped its case conferences. From Wordnik.com. [Speech At The Annual Dinner Of The American Law Institute] Reference
Rourke took a pen out of his shirt pocket, pulled on it until it telescoped into a pointer. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
And with the tournament telescoped from three days into two, strokes were even more valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest]
His legs were telescoped out as far as they could go, so that he seemed to be walking on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [The Norby Chronicles]
The GP fleet, now telescoped into one huge disc, ceased firing and passed through Worsel's zone. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Lensman]
By the time they had breakfast, and had borrowed a suit for him, time had telescoped the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Forever]
A spy plane that could identify people from 15 miles above Earth telescoped the Alaska coastline. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska plane crash a painful reminder for families of Boggs and Begich] Reference
When he had seen it before, through telescoped, tech-assisted vision, he had gotten no feel for size. From Wordnik.com. [Furious Gulf]
Joseph, though, took the weight and folded with it, telescoped and bent like a spring but did not crush. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
ABC was there, but they telescoped everything into three hours, and our ratings were in line with theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Birth of an MTV Nation] Reference
The brutal truth about politics is that a whole career can often be telescoped into a single defining event. From Wordnik.com. [Some Thoughts on Political History] Reference
My concern is that you are live in the outback world of DC were everything you see is telescoped the your DC perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Rothenberg: Dems On Roll Because Of Their "Moderation"] Reference
Nonetheless, for all its caution, Bhutan has telescoped more change into the past 12 years than over the previous hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Meaning of Miss Bhutan] Reference
Holes and casings of deep wells in consolidated rocks are often telescoped in diameter size to allow drilling at great depths. From Wordnik.com. [6. Water sources, their protection and development] Reference
The second tender had disappeared over the further side; and the first three waggons had telescoped and were smashed in pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Our thoughts, at first, telescoped, tunnel-vision first impressions soften, broaden and engage more as time infiltrates the matrix. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama's speech and context. It's ALL context.] Reference
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