FLAT in a Sentence

Learn FLAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
275 example sentences for FLAT, such as:
1. A bottle has a flat base.
2. The worker hammered the iron flat.
3. He lived in a flat above the shop.
4. Our bus won't start because the battery is flat.
5. The driver jacked up his car to change the flat tire.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FLAT
flat
 a.  sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
 a.  lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  He lived in a flat above the shop.
2  For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement flat.
3  The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
4  The police also found a quantity of ammunition in the flat.
5  Exercise is the only way to get a flat stomach after having a baby.
6  When the bag is folded flat, the bag bottom overlaps one side of the bag.
7  A bottle has a flat base.
8  The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.
9  Our bus won't start because the battery is flat.
10  The view that the earth is flat is no longer tenable.
11  The town police wear dark blue uniforms and flat caps.
12  Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.
13  The worker hammered the iron flat.
14  A flat electroencephalogram indicates a loss of brain function.
15  The driver jacked up his car to change the flat tire.