Flattened

Examples

• No one had ever carried the hay away and the four seasons that had passed had flattened the cocks and made the hay worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This machine, see Fig. 168, receives the dough at A, where it is coated with flour and flattened into a sheet between rolls. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mr. Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat--a very old beaver flattened in front. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He flattened it out upon the table, and a cry of triumph burst from his lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It had been stepped on and flattened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The pieces of cork are flattened out by heat or by weights, and are slightly charred on the surface to close the pores. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So low she was crouching now that she seemed flattened to the earth except for the upward bend of the glossy back as it gathered for the spring. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Anselmo flattened on the ground and Robert Jordan slipped his glasses into his shirt pocket and put his head well behind the pine tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I'm afraid it has spoilt your beautiful bust, for it passed right through the head and flattened itself on the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The two are intimately mixed in an earthen vessel, kneaded and flattened, shaped and polished. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Andreu Nin had flattened at the click, the top of his head hard against the ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Beyond, the road flattened out and I saw woods and steep hills in the mist. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The earth is not, however, an exact sphere, but is very slightly flattened at the poles, so as to have the form known as an oblate spheroid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The coiled pipe C is in the nature of a flattened tube, as shown in the enlarged cross section, and is enclosed in a case. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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