Flattening
['flætniŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flatten
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Examples
- Then a machine was needed and invented to wind the corn-brush with the cord or wire and tie it in a round bunch, preparatory to flattening and sewing it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She smiled in Robert Jordan's face and put her brown hand up and ran it over her head, flattening the hair which rose again as her hand passed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Here he is, said he, sitting down and flattening it out upon his knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a break in the mountains on the right bank, a flattening-out with a low shore line that I thought must be Cannobio. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They have the peculiar flattening and thickening which marks the boxing man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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