flatland
Example Sentences
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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
Separately, the conservative advocacy group CatholicVote raised around $500,000 for the pro-amendment Do Right PAC, according to the news outlet Flatland.
From Washington Post
Woodward pauses before answering in his slow, flatland drawl.
From Washington Post
For the most part, they sat in an urban flatland amid sprawling parking lots.
From Salon
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