Ellen is walking down the drive with a square flat box balanced on one hand.

Cook it in a flat dish.

It's called Cash for Gold, not sympathy for flat chicks.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is shaped like a flat disk surrounding a central bulge.

He proposed water as the single substance from which everything in the world was made and developed a model of the universe with Earth as a flat disk floating in water.

These animals have flat teeth at the back of the jaw that are analogous to and have the same function as grindstones.

Because the flat teeth of herbivores work like grindstones, however, the jaws mush move both side to side and front to back.

Tiles can be fixed to any surface as long as it's flat, firm and dry.

At this point it looks kind of like a thin dinner plate that rather than being circular, is hexagonal with six flat edges.

The same thing happens to this day, though on a smaller scale, wherever a sediment-laden river or stream emerges from a mountain valley onto relatively flat land, dropping its load as the current slows: the water usually spreads out fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a smooth, fan-shaped slope.

The countryside around here is almost completely flat.

We started our voyage in a flat calm.

If a steep mountain stream flows onto a flat plain, its gradient and velocity decrease sharply.

The sediment settles out to form a nearly flat landform called a delta.

Well, the Pyramid is built on a flat area called the Giza Plateau.

Waterlogged soils occur in areas that are flat or have poor drainage.

A stream deposits its sediment in three environments: Alluvial fans and deltas form where stream gradient (angle of incline) suddenly decreases as a stream enters a flat plain, a lake, or the sea; floodplain deposits accumulate on a floodplain adjacent to the stream channel; and channel deposits form in the stream channel itself.

Seagrass meadows in relatively turbulent waters tend to form a mosaic of individual mounds, whereas meadows in relatively calm waters tend to form flat, extensive carpets.

Now that I am in charge, I will make sure they get serious consideration.

Because the surface of the water table is not flat but instead rises and falls with topography, groundwater is affected by gravity in the same fashion as surface water.

Well, I remember reading that there's not really a lot going on, that the surface of Venus is just flat and smooth in a lot of places.

In flat plains country, he saw moraines (accumulations of earth and loose rock that form at the edges of glaciers) that reminded him of the terminal moraines found at the end of valley glaciers in the Alps.

Now in Europe in the Middle Ages before the invention of printing and printing press, all books, all manuscripts were hand made, and the material typically used for the pages was parchment, which is animal skin that’s stretched and dried under tension so it becomes really flat and can be written on.

It had been assumed that the ice extended westward from the Alaskan/Canadian mountains to the very edge of the continental shelf, the flat, submerged part of the continent that extends into the ocean.

They look like low-lying, white or grey buttes, long, narrow hills with flat tops, barely a meter high.

Her voice was flat, with no question or hope in it.

The flat character tends to serve mainly as a motivating factor.

My home state of Illinois is flat as a pancake.

Could this really stop the champagne from going flat?

People wear slacks, sweaters, flat shoes, and all manner of casual attire for travel.

Sometimes there's a flat fee for carrying out a particular task.

Medicare is preparing to cut all payments by a flat 2%.

The Foreign Ministry has issued a flat denial of any involvement.

She expected disapproval, but not the flat condemnation she actually received.

You often feel rather flat when you get home from a holiday.

The past few days have seemed comparatively flat and empty.

It is a long time since a party leader delivered such a dreadfully flat speech as he did yesterday.

His car alarm had been going off for two days and, as a result, the battery was flat.

I've got a flat tyre.

We can push the sofa back so that it's flat against the wall.

Schubert's B flat Piano Trio

He had been fired because his singing was flat.

This is the flat time of the year for our business.

Business has been pretty flat for the last couple of weeks.

It is just me or does this stuff taste flat to everyone?

If it wasn't for the main actress, Ellen Barkin, the plot would have fallen flat on its face.

A man walked in off the street, tripped over a step and fell flat on his face.

The event fell pretty flat because not enough people turned up for it.

I had it all explained to me in two minutes flat.

He asked her to go out with him, but she turned him down flat.

Two years later he is flat broke and on the dole.

She held her hand out flat.

We laid the map flat on the table.

The corn had been blown flat by the gale.

Two men near him threw themselves flat and covered their heads with their arms.

She had a tendency to sing flat.

He had angina and was unable to walk for more than 200 yards on the flat.

Sara lives with her husband and children in a flat in central London.

eight cloves of garlic crushed with the flat of a knife

Lay the lace flat and beat it with the flat of your hand to work in the starch.

alligators sunning themselves on the flats

The salt marshes and mud flats attract large numbers of waterfowl.

They had been flatting together for the best part of 10 years.

I flatted with a guy in Earl's Court when I lived in London.