make flat
Example Sentences
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Cut squash in half lengthwise: slice about 1/2 inch off the top and bottom to make flat sides; then, stand the squash up and carefully cut down the center to make two roughly even halves.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2022
His workshop was full of unpainted carved wooden panels and, in golden frames, abstract relief paintings called kundal, an art form that developed in 15th-century Samarkand to make flat surfaces look like three-dimensional textured brocade.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022
The clubhead is so small and simple, that they’re so hard to make flat.
From Golf Digest • Jan. 9, 2019
Some make flat, long tubes “that look like sleeping bags, and some make spiral cases that look like snail shells,” she says.
From National Geographic • Jun. 23, 2018
Now I have been thinking; Allah has bestowed on thee a rare and wondrous gift, which is, to make flat likenesses of all things that thine eyes behold.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
