FLAT in a Sentence

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For FLAT, below is one of 275 sentences:
She was hardly taller than a twelve-year- old child, her hips were as narrow as a child's and her breasts were very flat.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
flat
 n.  an area of low, level ground, often near water
 a.  level and smooth, with no curved, high, or hollow parts
 a.  level but having little or no height
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "The doctor don't want I should be left without anybody to do for me," she said in her flat whine.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  She suddenly felt that this was where she belonged, not in serene and quiet old cities, flat beside yellow waters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  "I'd like to learn it," replied his companion, a hint of buried laughter in his flat drawling voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  He looked pointedly at Mrs. Elsing's flat bosom, grinned suddenly and, bowing, made his exit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  She was hardly taller than a twelve-year- old child, her hips were as narrow as a child's and her breasts were very flat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  Atlanta had watched while train after train rolled through the town, hour after hour, passenger coaches, box cars, flat cars, filled with shouting men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  It would be selfish to eat the rooster alone, and if Melanie would only move her top hoop a little higher no one would notice anything and she was so flat in the bust anyway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Scarlett and many other ladies sat on the flat roofs of stores, shaded by their tiny parasols, and watched the fighting on the day of the battle of Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  "You just mention Mother's name once more, Suellen O'Hara, and I'll slap you flat," cried Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  "Then you warn't a dream, after all," he said, in his flat toneless voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  The flat has gas-fired central heating.
17  Sara lives with her husband and children in a flat in central London.
18  The coach hit his man with the flat of my sword.
19  For a monthly flat fee, paid by the consumer or employer, HMOs provide a specified list of medical services both in and outside the hospital.
20  Overtaking the next cyclist on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat.
21  The tourists laid themselves flat on the beach to enjoy a sunbath.
22  Thora bustled about the flat, getting everything ready.
23  Living in a flat is all right, but it has its limitations - for example, you don't have your own garden.
24  There is no sober-minded, fast pace also goes awry; no caution pace, then flat road will fall.
25  They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
26  We live in a ground floor flat which backs onto a busy street.
27  He dampened his hair to make it lie flat.
28  It's not half bad, your new flat.
29  Crops were laid flat by heavy rainstorms.
30  You should try to work at an even rate instead of taking it easy one day and working flat out the next.