How To Use Flat In A Sentence

deflate a balloon
You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
It's got the whole indie-hillbilly thing going, with lots of mandolins and footstomping and fuzzy guitars etc but it's all just a little flat.
Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.

For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
Soon the seeds in the inflated seed cases of the yellow rattle will be hard and rattle at a brush.
The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
External warts can appear as small bumps, or they may be flat, verrucous, or pedunculated.
After putting its energy into the 2008 acquisition of Northwest Airlines, the Atlanta-based carrier plans to spend more than $2 billion through 2013 to lure travelers with new flat-bed seats, video on demand and upgraded facilities in hotly contested markets such as New York. Delta Refocuses
The flat, white light made it hard to gauge distances. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
Then prop yourself up using your toes and forearms maintaining a flat position. The Sun
Flattery will get you nowhere.
As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
Crank baits trolled parallel to the shore or over sand flats in the DIRTY water where wind is blowing waves into the shore or shallows is good too regardless of the depth. Whats a good bait to use for walleye? ive never caught one but we now have land at a lake that is stocked with some.
The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
Inflation needs to be curbed in Russia.
It's an hour after sunrise on day three of the photographic safari and a solitary vulture is crossing a flat sky. Times, Sunday Times
Think of this as the obverse of 1970s-style stagflation, which brought us little or no growth, high inflation and high interest rates at the same time.
Our present lease on the flat expires next month.
Virtually foolproof to use, it flattering. Times, Sunday Times
I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Another argument that rates will rise is that inflation, long thought dead, has recently resurfaced.
This can easily be addressed by finding the right clothes to flatter her figure. The Sun
Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him
That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
In a downward inflation trend, salary expectations lag the decreases in inflation.
Such bottom-land as borders the Pamunkey river, for example, might be called undulating, compared to the general greater flatness of the whole great region under consideration. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
Child benefit was uprated in line with inflation too.
We then found her a green patterned dress which flatters her figure. The Sun
Ms Waterman says asbestos entered their flat through a hole which builders knocked in their wall.
We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
They should have had a very large deceleration in inflation, given the theory.
If the cells or islets were not synchronized we would observe a flat, averaged signal even though the single cells and islets released insulin in pulses.
The opportunity came up once to squat a flat I once rented.
The cestodes, or tapeworms, differ in a number of ways from other flatworms.
Such flat morphologies are common in the Central Andes.
Surfaces painted with semi-gloss or eggshell finish paints are easier to clean than flat-finish paints.
Beneath the splenium of the corpus callosum, the dentate gyrus becomes flattened and smooth and continues on to the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum as the thin gyrus fasciolaris.
To take the chain of speculation one step further, this suggests that the maxilla itself was originally a flat dermal plate of some kind, possibly homologous to the superognathal of placoderms.
We have security buzzers for entry to our flats and night after night, day after day, they ring the buzzer.
The flat roofs that leak need to be replaced, as do the heating system and the windows.
The jetty was the way it had always been—flat and solid and surrounded on three sides by water. Stones from the River
New saltmarshes, mudflats and sandflats would evolve and help to form natural sea defences, as well as create a prime location for rare species to make their homes.
A flat or smooth philtrum can present in persons with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Then unflattering photos of her exercising appeared. The Sun
The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention. Shovel-Ready Shibboleths
This leaves the ‘old school economic policies’ of dollar devaluation and deficit financing to help reflate the economy and fend off deflation and boost exporters.
Try them out with a nice pair of Earth tone flat-front chinos or slim-fit blue jeans, and a classic button-down shirt - tucked in or not.
The surprise is learning that even when a school's moderation process is proved faulty under the NCEA, students can still retain their inflated marks.
After the hospital I was planning on going to Lettuce Knit to buy some needles but decided against it, instead made the short walk from St. Mike's to the Flatiron.
Talking to BBC Leeds, Mr Silverman said that every Friday morning Sir Jimmy held what was known as the FMC, or Friday Morning Club, at his flat. BBC News - Home
He feels boxed in, living in that tiny flat.
The rear cargo hatch is unusually generous for this size car and with the back seats folded you can get a flat load floor, with a top load capacity of 1,044 litres.
The double-height section between the elevated bedrooms is covered with a flat glass roof.
Yields on bonds are so low that any future inflation is likely to erode the rates of return on government bonds bought today.
Did the deflation of the 19th century inhibit economic growth? Times, Sunday Times
The patrons' tables are constantly resupplied with clear, cool, tart pomegranate juice and hot, flat white bread extracted with long-handled wooden spatulas from the ovens through openings in the walls.
These flattened cells from the ovarian follicle and, therefore, called follicular cells. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
An inquest heard that the fire started after friends of Mr Wright lit candles in his flat while he had gone out drinking with a friend.
Lift the fish and carefully place it on a large board, flat side uppermost.
The Virgin and Santa Clara rivers snake easily between flat-topped mesas, following paths of least resistance.
It is therefore essential that they properly monitor the growth of broad money together with the build-up of wider inflationary risks. Times, Sunday Times
She noted diminished inflationary pressures and risks from the international outlook. Times, Sunday Times
A rocky shore almost certainly provides a clearer echo than a sandy slope or mud flat.
She was told to wear flat shoes, on account of her back problem.
Lay the shade on a flat surface with the lining side up, and mark the placement for the plastic rings along the dowel casing lines, aligning them with the screw eyes in the mounting board.
Irish flat racing jockeys are finding it increasingly tough to make the weight.
If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours. Albert Durer
The batwing sleeves and column shape flattered, but her messy hair and heavy make-up could have been more refined. The Sun
Inflation did eventually accelerate, and tight-money measures have barely begun to halt it.
He is a conservative Republican who backs a flat tax, pushes for regulatory relief, and favors curbs on immigration.
Judah and Jerusalem desolate then this credit of the prophets, and the hopes of the people, will both sink together; the former will be found false in flattering the people and the latter foolish in suffering themselves to be imposed upon by them, and so exposed to so much the greater confusion, when the judgment shall surprise them in their security. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Also I lived in a top-floor flat on a busy road, my carpets were foam-backed, the furniture was chipboard and hardboard. M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It
The top floor, which formed part of the upper flat, has three bedrooms.
The Scandinavian countries have a short harvest season and a long, flat winter. Times, Sunday Times
I said to them that in their deliberations they should consider the ten pensioners' flats adjacent.
He was totally flattened by her sarcasm.
Bond's unflattering portrait lacks generosity, but at least it's an antidote to sentimental bardolatry. Times, Sunday Times
He dampened his hair to make it lie flat.
The second trial also failed - the root crumbled every time he tried to flatten it into a thin disc for frying.
The sails hung limply in the flat calm .
It is propelled by oars, and will carry 15 or 20 persons, but its capacity is greatly increased by lashing inflated seal skins to the outside.
The 88-year-old coble, a flat-bottomed fishing boat, had survived a direct hit by a stick bomb in 1943, which went right through her hull.
Lie flat, bend the knees, then straighten the legs upwards.
A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
The rising inflation depressed the economy
Update 10/23/09 – the answer: A corn sheller, it was used to remove the undesirable shaped kernels of corn from the ends of ears leaving the large flat kernels thought to be the best for planting. What Is It? Game 112
Services companies were concerned about inflation and the squeeze on household income. Times, Sunday Times
Are wages keeping up with inflation?
One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
Now he aimed and fired, lying "doggo" behind his favourite stone, while bullets from the enemy's trenches flattened themselves upon it, or buried themselves harmlessly in the dry hot soil. The Dop Doctor
Purple and green dinosaur inflatable float with green vinyl seat bucket and yellow inflatable adjustable sunshade.
Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
Since the cloud was rotating, its spherical shape flattened into a disc.
Persistent deflation has crimped corporate earnings and worsened the government's deficit.
Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
She stood for a moment in her flat sandals, khaki shorts, a long-sleeved white silk shirt and a pair of very black wraparound sunglasses. BLOOD IS DIRT
Add it up and there's a business resilient enough to handle 2.5 per cent food deflation. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere, it may be acceptable for shop assistants to flatter and cajole you into buying anything, irrespective of whether it suits you.
The fused parietals form the posterior two-thirds of the sagittal crest, expanding posteriorly to form a flattened, sculpted deck behind the supratemporal fenestrae adjacent to the squamosals.
As far as repairing a flat on the road, we haven't yet finalized how riders will be able to achieve this.
Seeds were stratified at approximately 5°C in damp paper towels for 2-4 weeks and planted in flats.
The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation.
Miracle recovery, hit me like a ton of bricks and then it was over in nothing flat, blah blah blah.
We creep the hill, flat on our bellies through yellowed grass and stone, black dirt grimed on our bright faces like powdered war paint. Along the Battlement
I got a flat tyre soon after setting off.
The Hill's liberals will count it a successful session if they can scratch up a billion or so out of the defense budget, add in the money freed up if, as expected, Carter's counter-inflationary "real-wage insurance" plan is defeated, and then spread the dividends among the hardest-hit programs. The Politics of Austerity
The house has a sloping/flat/tiled/thatched/etc. roof.
Unemployment and inflation are the two most important variables affecting households. Times, Sunday Times
Clad in steel, the GigaMatrix looks like a copier from the late 1980s, with two flat TV monitors on top and a door on the side. Gut Reactions
At present, monetary policy is expansionary, as interest rates are less than the rate of inflation.
The flat surfaces are then applied to the snake bite. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
Circumnavigation of the globe changed the world from a flat map to a 3D sphere.
As if all that were not trouble enough, the landlord lets a goat loose in the flat.
Babylonia, a part of Lower Mesopotamia, 7; excessive flatness of, 9; later name for "Shumir and Accad" and for "Chaldea," 237. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
Whether you overslept or had a flat tire, airlines often will waive such fees for passengers who unintentionally miss flights.
After a night of no sleep and mopping the flat, I had a delightful day of dealing with various squads of plumbers.
I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.
He knocked me flat with one punch.
The rate of inflation must be held down.
The full force of the chromatic harmony was thrilling, as in such details as the cellos' dissonant flattened 6th just before the final cadence.
By conflating the stories in this way the fresco underscores the identity of the unnamed sinner with Mary Magdalen.
It was a broken economy, rampant inflation, ineffective industry, overdominant trade unions and high taxes. The Sun
The increased inflation will inject a degree of instability into the economy.
We'll need a flat surface to play the game on.
The adult ovary may present marked deviations from its typical form, sometimes being unusually long, spheroidal, flattened, triangular, crescentric, or otherwise irregular.
Inflation advanced sharply during the 1980s.
We've been working flat out on the disposal process. Times, Sunday Times
Visit the picnic ground and the cafe and view the bush setting from flat ground.
Also, I know you disdain catfish, but there's certainly a subset of guys who are hard-core and pretty cultish about catching monster blues and flatheads. Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?
Half an hour is five minutes longer than it used to take from the flat.
In afflictions, relatives and opponents combine with the ease-loving heart itself in flatteries, which it needs strong faith to overcome. yourselves know -- We always candidly told you so (1Th 3: 4; Ac 14: 22). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The rate of inflation increased by 2%.
It can't: it is crammed with lovers packed in tight, the details smashed flat, extraneous facts shorn away to save space, mangled and compressed to the point of incomprehensibility and all beyond counting or collating.
Some are herbivores, grazing on the filamentous algae covering coral reefs, and a few eat seagrasses and algae on reef flats.
Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
Two visitors at a time can poke their heads into his inflatable textile construction, sharing the air they breathe in the enclosed pod-like space.
In return for a bail-out of the currency, it would deflate the economy, impose a statutory incomes policy, and maintain a military presence East of Suez.
But now that the sun was fully out, he could see beyond the breakers, way beyond the waves to the flat water at the back.
After remembering inflatable tubes on roofs, I thought of another story about things on roofs.
The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments.
Andrew said to Erica something along the lines of `that nice young David what's-his-name is staying at Liz's flat, just now. AN OLDER WOMAN
The bands - flat and wide or thin and round, with varying degrees of resistance - can be knotted and looped around furniture.
The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina
Recent inflation could nullify the economic growth of the last several years.
And he flatters the mother and she kind of gets prissy and he talks her into going for a ride in the sports car.
And there is in Egypt another form of pyramid called the mastaba, which, like the Mexican, was flattened on the top; while in Assyria structures flattened like the Mexican are found. Atlantis : the antediluvian world
Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
He kept throwing glances at the river with ears flat against his skull.
There is no chance that deflationary pressures brought on by collapsing commodity prices will persuade consumers to defer spending. Times, Sunday Times
He then left for a flat at an undisclosed location. Times, Sunday Times
They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
We charge a flat fee for car hire.
Off set deals are looking particularly appealing given that no easy access accounts currently beat inflation. Times, Sunday Times
His moment of glory came in a raid on a Kilburn flat when the tenant brandished a loaded gun in his face. The Sun
The claimant was a co-operative and owned the freehold of a block of flats where the defendant was a lessee.
Her tennis game, filled with flat forehands and backhands, looks better-built for hard courts, rather than the slow, red clay of Paris. Li Na Wins French Open Title
These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
Like the bridge, the Poplar Gardens flats were created in a factory and assembled on site.
Inside the flat, police found traces of ricin, castor oil beans and equipment for crushing the beans.
FLATOW: So you just, basically, unspool it, like you were running a trans-Atlantic cable? Carrying Wind Power, Underwater
Also bear in mind that probably most shots we take are 200-400 yards which is point blank or near abouts that with any flat shooting rifle. Best caliber for 600+ yard shots
The flats tower above you - there are perhaps twenty five floors in the building, which looks grimy and worn.
We're having a small, flat roof added as part of our loft extension.
But it had clearly been some salutary effort to deflate her. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
Step 1: For starters, you will need a few common tools that are more than likely already sitting around the garage, such as a socket wrench set, a C-clamp, a flathead screwdriver, an Allen wrench set, and an ATV stand or lift. How to Replace the Brakes on a Utility ATV
I could try to swim the river, but the opposite bank was steep and clay-sided and devoid of any trees along the mudflat. The Glass Rainbow
Lying flat on the floor, twist your body on to one hip and cross your upper leg over your body.
He will be able to take some comfort from inflation figures due on Friday.
How weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world
When the biplane was pushed out of the hangar, the incoming tide covered the tidal flat making it necessary to cancel the flight.
Steven's eyes scanned the room immediately for people they knew, while Donnie starred amazed at the lights and tinsel decorating the flat.
And I can hear the clump clump clump of the three posh post-university flatsharing chums thumping about their flat upstairs, slamming doors, shouting to each other and walking heavy-footed across my dream-flat.
Also outstanding are the eye shadows, in an array of flattering colours that really stay put. Times, Sunday Times
Educators blame the lack of interest or knowledge of civics on several things, including grade inflation, overemphasis of test scores, and failure to teach the relevance of the Constitution.
It houses not only a flat-screen television, DVD player, reclining leather armchair, capacious bookshelves and an L-shaped execu-desk, but also a loo and what an estate agent might call a bijou kitchenette. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Blood pressure is normally taken with a device that has an inflatable cuff that is wrapped around the upper arm.
Euan," I said, foolish as a flattered schoolboy, and as awkward. The Hidden Children
The flattery made her expand.
In the course of the day, the sand flats will emerge and disappear. Times, Sunday Times
Because pocosins are found in broad, flat, upland areas far from large streams, they are ombrotrophic like northern bogs, meaning rain provides most of their water. Pocosins
My writing heart feels as crushed as that last bit of toothpaste that refuses to be squeezed out its flattened, mangled tube because someone (and I won’t name name but it begins with S and ends in cott) left the cap off again … Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » That’s Right. It’s Contest Time.
Indoors at De Montfort; outdoors in a manageable hillside parkspace and two-four tents on flat areas. All Bruced Up « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
He heard an elderly woman and a child were among residents in neighbouring flats when the fire started.
But because the Government has only uprated tax bands in line with inflation, rather than average earnings, which tend to rise faster, the number of people paying higher rate tax has risen from 2 million ten years ago, to 3.4 million today.
I mutter a sheepish apology and get to my feet, smoothing my shirt and trying to flatten my hair.
Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
Yet a sharp recent retreat in commodity prices, which has seen oil prices plunge some $20 in just three weeks to around $68, suggests the disinflation trend is likely to persist.
He could completely clear the husk of a coconut in 34 seconds flat.
Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
The rate of inflation was falling.
Such pessimism has led multiculturalists to conflate the idea of humans as culture-bearing creatures with the idea that humans have to bear a particular culture.
Yet during this prolonged period of low inflation for which Gordon likes to claim credit the maximum amount claimable has risen to £159,720. Archive 2008-06-01
One memorable dins that I made this week was my Savory Summer Simmer from last week, re-heated, over radicchio, with some high-quality Italian canned tuna on top and a whole-wheat flatbread on the side. CSA Week 7
We face continued disinflationary forces. Times, Sunday Times
According to the narrative in that report, inflation has been pushed up by a series of one-off factors that will fade away over time. Times, Sunday Times

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