How to Use flatland in a Sentence

flatland

noun
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  • The plateau, the flatland to which you’ve been accustomed, awaits you, both of you.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
  • The camp lies well to the north of the Rio Grande, covering 317 acres of the flatlands beside the Gulf of Mexico.
    — Earl Shorris, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • Underwood was the first musher to reach the coastal flatland west of the Topkok Hills.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • What opened in August is the first phase, built on the flatland where the quarry plant and headquarters used to be.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Sunflowers choke the fields of the country’s flatlands.
    — Fluto Shinzawa, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2018
  • On flatlands, fields became lakes as rain pooled in the ridges, unable to drain through the compacted soil.
    — Bella Bathurst, Newsweek, 29 May 2014
  • Both stand sentinel over the browns, greens and golds of the soybean fields and cornfields rolled out on the flatlands like a handcrafted rug.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the country’s largest wind and solar farms are in the Texas flatlands outside the city, and a huge wind farm has been proposed off the coast of Galveston.
    — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In the still of the dawn, with the battle ebbing, there was a tranquility to the way these southern flatlands rolled gently down to the Euphrates.
    — Azad Cudi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
  • The city of is a bedroom community that stretches from the flatlands of the San Gabriel Valley to the foothills of the mountains that give the valley its name.
    — Scott Garner, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Two new park rangers to monitor and enforce park rules at flatland parks.
    — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 21 May 2018
  • The midday forecast Saturday called for 1 ½ to 2 ½ inches in the flatlands and up to 5 inches in the foothills and mountains, Schoenfeld said.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Set apart by three mountain ranges and a great delta to the north, the 250-mile-long flatland exists in a state of geographic and psychic exile.
    — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Even today, Border Patrol agents on horseback comb the hills and flatlands.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, sacbee, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Animal Kingdom sits on what once was a huge, barren flatland of nothing but miles and miles of sand dunes.
    — Bruce Pecho, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Most white people lived in the neighborhoods in the northern and eastern parts of the city, and most black people lived in its southern and western flatlands.
    — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • Around 2016, a new discipline called geometric deep learning emerged with the goal of lifting CNNs out of flatland.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The couple were hopeful the golf club would escape harm’s way thanks to its location in the flatlands of Montecito, which have been spared as the fire chews through the dry vegetation in the hills and canyons.
    — Miriam Jordan and Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The tax revenue would also allow the Fire Department to come up with a vegetation management plan in the case of a fire in the city’s flatland.
    — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The group gathered at the post office in Dundee, one of many small communities nestled in the flatlands along the Mississippi River in the northern part of the state.
    — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The yellow bus took her up from her home in the flatlands to Thousand Oaks Elementary in the hills, linking neighborhoods that were cleaved by race and income.
    — Casey Tolan, The Mercury News, 28 June 2019
  • Nearly all of those who died lived within a two-mile radius in the flatlands of this small wealthy community just south of Santa Barbara.
    — Jennifer Medina and Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This land northwest of Salt Lake City oscillates between steep-sloped mountains and long stretches of flatland.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The rivers burst their banks not long after, flooding the flatland where the coconuts, mangoes, and yams grew, and laying down impermeable clay that made the earth unusable.
    — National Geographic, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Rong Chen, as this temple is known, occupies the summit of Phnom Kulen, a high plateau that rises from the flatlands of northern Cambodia.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The sprawling corporate campus of Meyer Sound was once a ketchup factory in the Berkeley flatlands.
    — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Anna is a city of a little more than 4,000 people located in the middle of Union County, where soybean fields and flatlands to the north give way to the forests and sandstone canyons of southern Illinois.
    — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Riders will face six climbs after leaving the Central Valley flatlands.
    — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
  • Last week, at a tiny airport in the dusty flatlands east of San Francisco, a red-and-white helicopter lifted gently into the air, hovering a few feet over the tarmac.
    — Cade Metz, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
  • The phenomenon can be seen from the window of any airplane flying over America’s flatlands.
    — Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023

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