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How to use flatten in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Flatten means to make something flat or flatter. Example: “As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.”

Examples of flatten by meaning

verbTo make something flat or flatter.

  • As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.
  • Mary would flatten the dough before rolling it into pretzels.
  • Attempting to block the police van's path, protesters periodically surrounded the vehicle and eventually flattened one of its tires.1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16

verbTo press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or...

  • He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus

verbTo knock down or lay low.

  • The prize fighter quickly flattened his challenger.

verbTo become flat or flatter; to plateau.

  • Prices have flattened out.

More sentences with flatten

  • On some beaches, the berm grows higher in summer and flattens out in the rougher winter seas.From the entry berm
  • If he pings my bra strap once more, I shall flatten him.From the entry pings
  • We removed the fallen tree from the flattened car.From the entry flattened
  • The tree fell on the car and flattened it.From the entry flattened
  • They can’t even get away from them to this day, they just flattened them.2026 July 8, u/DAPOPOBEFASTONYOAZZ, r/WindowsVista (Reddit post), archived from the original on 11 Jul 2026. From the entry peak
  • Here you are looking at a flattened and briefly fried piece of cod - the ease!2025 November 14, Helen Graves, “Supersize Me! Everything bagel fried fish with fennel, apple and red chilli slaw”, in Flavour Nuggets…. From the entry schnitzely
  • Koulibaly flattens Steven Bergwijn with a reducer from behind but avoids a booking.2022 November 21, Barry Glendenning, “Live Feed: Senegal v Netherlands”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2022. From the entry reducer
  • We needed to vang the main, pull it down to flatten it, and make it more efficient.2018, Henry R. Danielson, Island People: Finding Our Way. From the entry vang
  • She staggered through the reeds to the island ahead and flattened on the ground.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 352. From the entry tuckered out
  • The medioproximal and lateroproximal faces are flattened for adpression with adjacent metatarsals.2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry lateroproximal
  • Today the French grow both a flattened type called Egyptian and the rounded crapaudine varieties.2015, Aileen Bordman, Derek Fell, Monet's Palate Cookbook: The Artist & His Kitchen at Giverny. From the entry crapaudine
  • He opened it and took out a flattened bag of wet wipes and a packet of sherbet.2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry wet wipe
  • They had spread out and flattened under the weight of pregnancy, and hurt.2012 January 10, Amy Fleming, “The mother of all maternity shoes”, in The Guardian. From the entry postpartum
  • The species he concentrated on was Cephalotes atratus, a slate-black “turtle ant” with a flattened body.2010, Mark W. Moffett, Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions, University of California Press, page 137. From the entry turtle ant
  • They flatten further and become compacted into a dense keratinous layer known as the stratum corneum.2009, David Weedon, Weedon's Skin Pathology, page 248. From the entry squame
  • The psammobiotic species are usually particularly small (mostly around 50 μm), and the shell is often flattened.2008, Olav Giere, Meiobenthology: The Microscopic Motile Fauna of Aquatic Sediments, →ISBN. From the entry psammobiotic
  • Even the nudie cutie—whose women are typically flattened objects—tends to situate women as higher beings.2006, David Andrews, Soft in the middle: the contemporary softcore feature in its contexts. From the entry nudie-cutie
  • It is flattened ventrally and is smooth around the pseudostome area.2003, Ken J. Clarke, Guide to the Identification of Soil Protozoa - Testate Amoebae, page 22. From the entry pseudostome
  • If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form.2001, Jennifer Hahn, Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage, published 2009, page 135. From the entry sand dollar
  • Flattened carapace and claws, and large modified maxillipeds used to gather planktonic food.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 164. From the entry maxilliped
  • As the trail flattens out, it follows the draw up right to a saddle in the ridgeline.1999, Stewart M. Green, Rock Climbing Arizona, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry ridgeline
  • "I'm gonna flatten her with my own personal slobber-knocker block." "She'll never know what hit her!"1993, Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, The Berenstain Bears and the female fullback, page 68. From the entry slobber knocker
  • His nose was distorted—flattened from having been broken several times—and that enhanced his fishlike appearance.1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 213. From the entry fishlike
  • I used to be numbered among the Milquetoasts and was periodically used or flattened!1988, Muriel Larson, Me and My Pet Peeves, Nashville, Tenn.: Broadman Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry milquetoast
  • I have small breasts that lie flattened against the chest like lappets.1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Part 2, p. 122. From the entry lappet
  • Pure squanderation of the cannon and unnecessarily flattening to the skeet.1984, Miles Franklin, The End of my Career, Pocket Books - The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 201. From the entry squanderation
  • A flattened person-made concrete block lying in between the two bays known as Gnejna and Ghajn Tuffieha.1981 April 11, George Xuereb, “Maltese Memories”, in Gay Community News, page 18. From the entry person-made
  • His tail, which looks like a piece of flattened gardenhose, serves as an oar.1973, Jane H. Bailey, The sea otter's struggle, page 22. From the entry gardenhose
  • The distal end or termination of the flexid or flexus is described as flattened, rounded or narrowed.1955, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 29, page 130. From the entry flexus
  • Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose.1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 20. From the entry candlestick
  • Two carriages of the electric train were flattened out of existence; the next two were broken up.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry handlight
  • TMA people are maddened from multiple angles, complex motivations, intentions, and needs flattened into impenetrable problems for disposal.2025 May, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly…. From the entry TMA
  • For Fat Tuesday only, Manderfield’s will offer a flattened “flying saucer” paczek that is thin with a crispy texture.2023 February 15, Jeff Bollier, “Where to get your paws on paczki”, in Herald Times Reporter, volume 53, number 39, Manitowoc, Wis., page…. From the entry paczek
  • Ekin-Su doesn't flatten herself to widen her appeal to audiences.2022 August 16, Katja Vujić, “An Ode to Ekin-Su, TV's Best Reality Star”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 10 May 2023. From the entry millennial pause

Meaning of flatten

  1. verb To make something flat or flatter.
  2. verb To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
  3. verb To knock down or lay low.

Full definition of flatten

Questions about flatten in a sentence

How do you use flatten in a sentence?
Flatten is used as a verb. For example: “As there was a lot of damage, we chose the heavy roller to flatten the pitch.”
What is a short sentence with flatten?
“Prices have flattened out.”
What does flatten mean?
Flatten means to make something flat or flatter.

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