flatland

Example Sentences

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Louis said Parker's best discipline is flatland BMX - doing tricks on the ground, without the use of ramps, however, for Parker, he enjoys the more extreme side.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

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

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

This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith