not flat
Example Sentences
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In the 19th century, mathematician Bernhard Riemann proposed that perceptual color spaces are not flat or straight, but curved.
From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026
"We were not sloppy, we were not flat, but we struggled to regain the ball because they are really good," said the City boss.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024
They’re humans, with lives and dramas — not flat figures on a stained-glass window, or storybook characters, or ethereal saints.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024
To measure longer distances, you can draw a thread around a globe, such that the shortest route is a curve—after all, Earth is not flat.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2023
Somewhere between super popular and well'liked: not brainy, not jocks, not rich, not druggies, not mean, not goody-goody, not huge, not flat.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
