flatland

Example Sentences

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"I was raised in Delta dirt, sunshine and flatland that goes on for miles and miles," she sings, as people nod their heads and stomp their feet to the beat.

From BBC • May 31, 2025

“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

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

“A cholera outbreak in a flooded flatland with a very high water table is ‘mission impossible’ to address,” Myrta Kaulard, the UN resident coordinator in Mozambique, told Associated Press.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2023

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