Example Sentences

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But thanks to the cables, any fit flatlander with a firm grip and steely nerves has a decent chance of making it up the backside of Half Dome — if the weather cooperates.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

Despite this clear warning, this summer’s population explosion has tried his last nerve, as he explained to one flatlander after another how things are done in Vermont.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2020

It occurred to me that a headlong slide into the netting would be less than ideal for a fifty-year-old flatlander with a long list of wonky ligaments and disks, and a recent spate of concussions.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Gilmore then answered in his quavering otherworldly tenor, “I’m an old flatlander from the great high plains, I like wanderlust and wonder, West Texas wind blows through my veins.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2018

Well, we are in the same position in space as our puzzled flatlander, only we are flummoxed by a higher dimension.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson