flatland

The partners leased their first of three parcels of barren flatland for around $25,000 a month, anchored by a dilapidated ranch house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

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

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

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

Rather than deal with the wild animals, who seemed to be everywhere on the flatland, they decided to go in search of food up in the hills.

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

The foreground is a scar of denuded earth, storage tanks and bobbing pumpjacks — the legacy of oil discovered a century ago when only farmhouses were scattered over the surrounding flatlands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025

Its history is short: it has only existed since 2005, raised out of the flatlands by the then military rulers of Myanmar, which was previously known as Burma.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2025

Given these troops have been trained to fight in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, the defectors question how well they will adapt to fighting on the flatlands and in the trenches of Kursk.

From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024

Gilchrist was born in 1935 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a remote plantation in the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

When she reached the top, Roz saw flatlands sprawling out before her.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown