flatland
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- flatlander noun
Etymology
Origin of flatland
Example Sentences
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In other world championships decided Thursday, Yu Shoji of Japan won the men’s BMX freestyle flatland competition and Aude Cassagne of France took the women’s title.
From Washington Times • Aug. 10, 2023
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
Many Rio favelas were indeed built on the hillside, but others are found on flatland, like the now-famous City of God favela that began as a public housing project.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2021
It was a lovely sensation, one the agent had always appreciated, catapulting from the twisty dark gorge onto that flatland, with a straight highway aiming exactly north.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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