flatten

Example Sentences

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"Water voles have got scent glands on their feet and they will stamp down on the poo and they'll flatten it around and that is them scent marking their territory."

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

The idea was to stack them up, allowing each to account for a portion of the reductions needed to flatten the surging rate of global emissions.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026

Mr. Talty presents characters worthy of our interest, but he tends to flatten them into stock types.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

It is also encouraging to see the long-term 200-week simple moving average beginning to flatten, a potential sign that the broader downtrend is stabilizing.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

And the bombardment also failed to flatten the Germans’ barbed-wire entanglements, merely tossing the barbed wire around and creating even more of a barrier than before.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman