flattened
Example Sentences
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Would seeing your house flattened by Hurricane Shell wake people up?
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
After she finally sought treatment, she wrote, the medication she was prescribed flattened her — in one instance she fell asleep for hours on the set of “Nashville.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
When Thoreau spews nonsense, such as men, “like the earth, revolve mainly from west to east, and so are flattened at the poles,” let’s call the silliness by its real name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Pictures at the Lewes derailment have shown how the force of the train leaving the tracks had flattened trees and left a piece of track strewn across the embankment.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The downtown flattened out to weedy lots strewn between plain brick and wooden clapboard buildings.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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