flatland

Example Sentences

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And much of the flatland area that McNeill views as most appropriate for development is restricted by open space easements purchased by the county in the 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

On Monday, an incoming typhoon which turned into a tropical storm forced organisers to call quits and evacuate all participants from the Saemangeum area- a vast, treeless flatland.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2023

But the oil giant ConocoPhillips is already in motion, massing equipment and flying in workers and provisions to this vast frozen flatland 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

The organization provided data to the AP showing that across all states, Mississippi has the eighth-highest percentage of such counties, which snake through the Delta, an agricultural flatland where persistent poverty shapes daily life.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols