make flat
Example Sentences
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Cut squash in half lengthwise: slice about 1/2 inch off the top and bottom to make flat sides; then, stand the squash up and carefully cut down the center to make two roughly even halves.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2022
His workshop was full of unpainted carved wooden panels and, in golden frames, abstract relief paintings called kundal, an art form that developed in 15th-century Samarkand to make flat surfaces look like three-dimensional textured brocade.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
The clubhead is so small and simple, that they’re so hard to make flat.
From Golf Digest • Jan. 9, 2019
Some make flat, long tubes “that look like sleeping bags, and some make spiral cases that look like snail shells,” she says.
From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018
All, probably, that his thought had accomplished was to rob his ride of its glow, make flat the taste of the whiskey and charged water he prepared.
From Cytherea by Hergesheimer, Joseph
