flatland

Example Sentences

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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

“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 • Apr. 2, 2023

Now we come to one major distinction between houses and homeowners’ tastes and places: hillside houses and flatland houses.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021

This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith