flatland

Example Sentences

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Just to reach her nearest acquaintance, Grace, she has to ride nine miles by horse against incessant winds that whip the flatland like a vicious antagonist.

From Washington Post

“Angelenos were forced to exchange their shorts and coconut oil for bulky jackets and gloves as flatland suburbanites scraped ice off windshields and downtown workers cursed the city’s hilly terrain,” Times reporter Cecilia Rasmussen wrote in 1999, on the 50th anniversary of the storm.

From Los Angeles Times

The strain is most acute in Mississippi’s Delta region, an agricultural flatland where poverty remains entrenched.

From Seattle Times

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

Katie Kehoe of Richmond photographs a small, ragged wooden pier she erected in an arid Nevada flatland that shows signs of once having been submerged.

From Washington Post