How to Use flatland in a Sentence

flatland

noun
  • The ban does not apply to the city's flatland parks.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 5 May 2025
  • The plateau, the flatland to which you’ve been accustomed, awaits you, both of you.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
  • Two new park rangers to monitor and enforce park rules at flatland parks.
    — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 21 May 2018
  • But the bigger the flatlands grew, the more the mountains beckoned.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Thirteen Google data centers rise up from the grassy flatlands.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • There are gorgeous swaths of untouched beaches, as well as dune, lagoon, pine flatland, salt.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2025
  • White people wanted distance from the Black and brown people on the flatlands.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Underwood was the first musher to reach the coastal flatland west of the Topkok Hills.
    — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The variety of landscapes ranges from snowy mountains to lush river valleys, vast flatlands, and dense forests.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Even today, Border Patrol agents on horseback comb the hills and flatlands.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, sacbee, 4 Sep. 2017
  • To use them in the flatlands of eastern Ukraine suggests desperation.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2025
  • All are grueling, three-week races across the flatlands and mountainous terrain of their eponymous nations.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The arena abuts rows of restaurants and bars on one side and, on the other, a long expanse of flatland leading to the Rockies.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Angela stalks the flatlands of Odessa in designer heels and diamond chokers.
    — Sarah Hepola, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Riders will face six climbs after leaving the Central Valley flatlands.
    — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 11 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the past its waters simply rose over the low lip of the lake in a vast sheet and began to seep slowly southward across the flatlands of southern Florida.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The rooms are spread between various ecosystems—the beach, the flatlands, and the mountains—making the resort feel like three distinct boutique hotels.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The first is prairie-style architecture, which was inspired by the flatlands of the American Midwest, where Wright was born and raised.
    — Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2025
  • The new Rosewood Mandarina is an all-suite sanctuary spread across three distinct ecosystems, from ocean to mountain and flatlands.
    — Carole Dixon, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
  • 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 sprawling corporate campus of Meyer Sound was once a ketchup factory in the Berkeley flatlands.
    — Chris Berdik, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020

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