flat out
Example Sentences
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Another person with a nut allergy wrote in an online review that they were "flat out refused service" despite accepting the risk and that the restaurants rule on allergies is "not an acceptable one".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Jacobson says they have computers now working flat out generating brackets for this year’s competition.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026
Supposedly the pinnacle of motor sport, yet the drivers can't go flat out.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
One academic asked me flat out, if I loved Iran so much, why was I badmouthing it?
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
As Ike came up the side, Fadi ran, flat out, back the way he’d come.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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