flatland

Example Sentences

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“I think a lot of it is that we populate the scene between the flatland of L.A. and the Griffith Park hill.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

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

The organization provided data to the AP showing that across all states, Mississippi has the eighth-highest percentage of such counties, which snake through the Delta, an agricultural flatland where persistent poverty shapes daily life.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

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