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Sentences ending with flat

It was dreadfully witless and flat. [5]
It is frequently water-logged till late in the summer: invisible a part of the year, when it emerges it is mostly a dreary flat. [4]
But people like us--that is, of our means--do give character to the average flat. [8]
A bay ran up the two stories, and at the left were two narrow doorways, one for each flat. [9]
At the same time, he had to trump up an objection to the flat. [8]
Do you call this flat? [12]
From one of these shady holes a rabbit hopped out and squatted down, laying its ears flat. [13]
He feebly fought them off till he could have another look at the flat. [8]
After much labor the horses and mules were securely placed on the flat. [5]
She came into the breakfast-room dressed still in buckskin and moccasins, and though the grease had been taken out of her hair it was still combed flat. [11]

Short sentences using flat

Merlin's stock was flat. [5]
But this is flat rebellion. [6]
His stock was flat again. [5]
It fell flat. [5]

Sentences containing flat two or more times

Until they came to Hampton they had always lived in houses, and her adaptation to a flat had been hard--a flat without a parlour. [9]
Then the only combination left open to them was of a ground-floor flat to the right and a third-floor flat to the left. [8]

More example sentences with the word flat in them

And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. [5]
They imagined the world to be flat and round, like a trencher, and they in the middest. [4]
And Sally Grower's words, apropos of the woman in the flat, seemed but an energetic driving home of the severe lessons of his recent experiences. [9]
The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
Little gray and white rabbits crouched in the grass, now nibbling, now laying long ears flat and watching the dogs. [13]
It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. [4]
You asked me where I lived--in a little flat that's no better than a tenement. [9]
The old "hangings" were yet preserved in the chambers, faded, but still showing their rich patterns,--properly entitled to their name, for they were literally hung upon flat wooden frames like trellis-work, which again were secured to the naked partitions. [6]
Before General Wilkinson went to New Orleans the Spaniards seized our flat boats and cargoes and flung our traders into prison, ay, and sent them to the mines of Brazil. [9]
So the mud-turtle went in alone again and come out just as flat as he done before. [5]
Short led the way; with the flat box, the private luggage (which was not extensive) tied up in a bundle, and a brazen trumpet slung from his shoulder-blade. [12]
Then the man was very surly, and said if he looked at the flat now he would say it was too dark, like all the rest. [8]
Here the flat was towed alongside the gin-house where there were fifteen head standing in water; and yet, as they stood on scaffolds, their heads were above the top of the entrance. [5]
That is, she was right as to the rest of the world, but she warn't right about the part our village is in; that part is the shape of a plate, and flat, I take my oath! [5]
And so he was cleaned out as you may say, and he struck the home-trail, cheerful but flat broke. [5]
When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat. [5]
That feature was very troublesome: if made prominent, it was calculated to excite Pete's suspicion; if modified below the suspicion-point it was flat and meaningless. [5]
That may be very good Dutch Flat poetry, but it won't do in the metropolis. [5]
They are of various shapes; they have flat surfaces, rounded borders, and never a sharp edge. [5]
But all of us have a little speck of fight underneath our peace and good-will to men, just a speck, for revolutions and great emergencies, you know,--so that we should not submit to be trodden quite flat by the first heavy-heeled aggressor that came along. [6]
In part scattered upon the ground at the feet of the two men, and in part jumbled together in a long flat box, were the other persons of the Drama. [12]
He had fitted up bachelor apartments for himself in the house, and said that he was going to have a flat to let on the top floor. [8]
Her mother, artist unknown; flat, angular, hanging sleeves; parrot on fist. [6]
They were frequently under fire --when they brought back the wounded or fetched car-loads of munitions to the great guns on the ridiculous little trains of flat cars with open-work wheels, which they named--with American humour--the Federal Express and the Twentieth Century Limited. [9]
On the way to the ridges they passed clean pasture fields, bowlders, gray rocks, aged cedars with flat tops like the stone-pines of Italy. [4]
Mr. Peach writes to me that an old dog of his howls when B flat is sounded on the flute, and to no other note. [1]
If I were to describe Ravenna, I should say that it is as flat as Holland and as lively as New London. [4]
He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk. [5]
Now, you see, this makes the Grosvenor Green flat practicable, if you want it. [8]
At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
Cairo was still there--easily visible across the long, flat point upon whose further verge it stands; but we had to steam a long way around to get to it. [5]
Well, he got there all safe, and was reaching slow and steady toward the buttons, but he knocked down something that made a noise, and we see him slump down flat an' soft in the bottom, and lay still. [5]
They were eating their evening-meal, consisting of a roasted antelope, and large flat cakes of bread. [10]
His feet, in their broad; flat slippers, made no sound on the dense carpet, and he came unseen upon the little group there near the piano. [8]
This will make the walls interesting and instructive and really worth something instead of being just flat things to hold the house together. [5]
On account of the tindery condition of the woods we made our fire on the natural pavement, and selected a smooth place for our bed near by on the flat rock, with a pool of limpid water at the foot. [4]
By daylight, when the tide was out, the pretty silver bay of the night before was a mud flat, and the tourists, looking over it from Monument Hill, lost some of their respect for the Pilgrim sagacity in selecting a landing-place. [4]
To this day the railroad has not reached Coniston Village--nay, nor Coniston Flat, four miles nearer Brampton. [9]
The captain urged the men to put forth all their strength, and very soon the boat was flying along under the western shore, and divided by an oozy flat from the eastern bank. [10]
For instance, by the light dancing in Mr. Tiernan's eyes as he regarded her, she saw herself now as the mainstay of the helpless family in the clay-yellow flat across the street. [9]
The water in the jug was warm and flat, yet she longed for a cool drink. [10]
But what is the good of that; my grandfather will be angry, for in my terror I beat his father's nose quite flat on the plate. [10]
The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
Nothing grows in the flat, burning desert around it but weeds and the Dead Sea apple the poets say is beautiful to the eye, but crumbles to ashes and dust when you break it. [5]
He ascended to the flat roof, hoping to be able to cool down his spirit there and get back his tranquility. [5]
High above, on the flat promontory between the two rivers, is the city of tents and wooden huts, the great trees in their fresh faint green towering above the low roofs. [9]
Presently he drove the dogs across the road, and attached them to a flat vehicle, without wheels or runners, used by Garotte for the drawing of lime and stones. [11]
The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor stuck out a little bit, and was flat and a good place to build a fire on. [5]
Fillmore Street knew that the flat visored cap which his corporation compelled him to wear covered a brain into which had penetrated the maggot of the Single Tax. [9]
Mr. Gould states that certain humming-birds decorate the outsides of their nests "with the utmost taste; they instinctively fasten thereon beautiful pieces of flat lichen, the larger pieces in the middle, and the smaller on the part attached to the branch. [1]
When we were taking that wood flat down to the Chambers, which was aground, I soon saw that I was a perfect lubber at piloting such a thing. [5]
Why don't you take that woman's flat in the Xenophon? [8]
The flat means society life; that is, the pretence of social life. [8]
He rode a small flat English pad, across which was flung the United States mail pouch, apparently empty. [4]
There wasn't a sign of a flat thing visible. [5]
It was almost sheer; its top was flat and level. [11]
You remember how she frightened us once before, when she went off and stayed all night with the woman she used to know in the flat house, when she heard she was sick? [9]
And Janet, as she fared forth from the Fillmore Street flat, felt resurging in her the divine recklessness that is the very sap of life. [9]
The men all set up a yell, and some of them fell flat on their stomachs, some begun to fire their guns at us, and the rest broke and scampered every which way, and so did the camels. [5]
One of them sent her to a flat of ten rooms which promised to be the solution of all their difficulties; it proved to be over a livery-stable, a liquor store, and a milliner's shop, none of the first fashion. [8]
So when we see the raft was gone and we flat broke, there warn't anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake. [5]
We want to see the muss cleared up, of course; we want Shon McGann to act like a high-toned citizen, and there's a general prejudice in favour of things bein' on the flat of your palm, as it were. [11]
The flat, plastered roof is garnished by picturesque stacks of fresco materials, which, having become thoroughly dried and cured, are placed there where it will be convenient. [5]
George was greatly respected in Dutch Flat, and it is estimated that there were 10,000 people present at his funeral. [5]
Nothing prevented its realization so much as its difference from the New York ideal of a flat, which was inflexibly seven rooms and a bath. [8]
There was a radiator visible in the narrow hall, and Isabel tacitly compromised on steam heat without an elevator, as the flat was only one flight up. [8]
It was not quite true that she had taken her passage for Europe, but she hoped soon to do so, and she confessed that in the mean time she was anxious to let her flat. [8]
After she had put away several barrels of gimcracks, and folded up screens and rugs and skins, and carried them all off to the little dark store-room which the flat developed, she perceived at once a roominess and coziness in it unsuspected before. [8]
At Tom Hooper's place, a few miles from Troy, a large flat, with about fifty head of stock on board, was taken in tow. [5]
The heat was pitiless, the flat plains were destitute of grass, and baked dry by the sun they were the color of pale dust, which was flying in clouds. [5]
After leaving the picturesque highlands about Lewiston, the country is flat, and although the view over the lovely sheet of blue water is always pleasing, there is something bleak even in summer in this vast level expanse from which the timber has been cut away. [4]
Magnificent coloured mosaic pictures covered the floor and many flat spaces above door and windows, but gold and silver had been sparingly used. [10]
I talked it over with your aunt and uncle, and they agreed with me you'd much rather live out there for a few years than in a flat. [9]
I do wish our great men would quit saying these flat things just at the moment they die. [5]
Flowers and shrubs ornamented the flat roofs, on which the Egyptians loved to spend the evening hours, unless indeed, they preferred ascending the mosquito-tower with which nearly every house was provided. [10]
The tent was one of those with a flat roof, divided into three apartments, which he had often seen, and the woman who irresistibly attracted him was doubtless in the lighted one. [10]
Grassette was flat on the ground, his ear to the earth. [11]
The troops encamped on the flat shore on which stood the Temple of the Casian Amon. [10]
Within the seat of the throne is enclosed a rough flat rock--the stone of Scone--which many generations of Scottish kings sat on to be crowned, and so it in time became holy enough to answer a like purpose for English monarchs. [5]
The huge dome of the Serapeum on the Rhakotis, covered with lamps, towered above the flat roofs of the city like the starry firmament of a smaller world which had descended to earth. [10]
For the success of the dinner does not necessarily depend upon the talk being brilliant, but it does depend upon its being general, upon keeping the ball rolling round the table; the old-fashioned game becomes flat when the balls all disappear into private pockets. [4]
At the end of the broad, monotonous Ludwig Strasse, and yet not at the end, for the road runs straight on into the flat country between rows of slender trees, stands the Siegesthor, or Gate of Victory, an imitation of the Constantine arch at Rome. [4]
All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures--an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts. [5]
By the side of a rock, which hill him from Nefert, he paused, set the cup on a flat block of stone, and drew the flask with the philter out of his girdle. [10]
In the loft of a gin-house there were seventeen head found, and after a gangway was built they were led down into the flat without difficulty. [5]
Rain me sweet odors on the air, And wheel me up my Indian chair, And spread some book not overwise Flat out before my sleepy eyes. [6]
She abolished the odious little flat, gummy side-curl. [6]
It came to nothing; she was not humbled in the least by what she had seen in the tenement-house street; she yielded no point in her ideal of a flat, and the flats persistently refused to lend themselves to it. [8]
If it did not take his breath away and lay him out as flat as the Queen of Sheba was knocked over by the splendors of his court, he must have rivalled our Indians in the nil admarari line. [6]
Here he could not see a hand before his face, so he groped along, found a little flat space, and there removed the saddle-bags. [13]
The family did not complain, except on account of losing their stock, and promptly brought a supply of wood in a flat. [5]
As they fled northward through the flat river-meadows, the conductor would have liked to talk to her of Mr. Merrill; there were few employees on any railroad who did not know the genial and kindly president of the Grand Gulf and sympathize with his troubles. [9]
Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced. [2]
And on the neighboring banks the maiden-hair spread its flat disk of embroidered fronds on the wire-like stem that glistened polished and brown as the darkest tortoise-shell, and pale violets, cheated by the cold skies of their hues and perfume, sunned themselves like white-cheeked invalids. [6]
All the houses nearly are one-and two-story, made of thick walls of stone, plastered outside, square as a dry-goods box, flat as a floor on top, no cornices, whitewashed all over--a crowded city of snowy tombs! [5]
The wood being nearly all out of the flat now, Ealer rang to 'come ahead' full steam, and the next moment four of the eight boilers exploded with a thunderous crash, and the whole forward third of the boat was hoisted toward the sky! [5]
We are a nation divided against ourselves; democracy--Jacksonian democracy, at all events, is a flat failure, and we may as well acknowledge it. [9]

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