flatland

Example Sentences

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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

“A cholera outbreak in a flooded flatland with a very high water table is ‘mission impossible’ to address,” Myrta Kaulard, the UN resident coordinator in Mozambique, told Associated Press.

From Seattle Times

Just to reach her nearest acquaintance, Grace, she has to ride nine miles by horse against incessant winds that whip the flatland like a vicious antagonist.

From Washington Post

“Angelenos were forced to exchange their shorts and coconut oil for bulky jackets and gloves as flatland suburbanites scraped ice off windshields and downtown workers cursed the city’s hilly terrain,” Times reporter Cecilia Rasmussen wrote in 1999, on the 50th anniversary of the storm.

From Los Angeles Times

The strain is most acute in Mississippi’s Delta region, an agricultural flatland where poverty remains entrenched.

From Seattle Times