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

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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2022

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

On flatland, nothing could catch them, and even on hills and rocky terrain, there was nothing short of Araby close to their equal.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman