How to Use flatten in a Sentence

flatten

verb

• The team got flattened in the first round of the play-offs.
• The boxer was flattened in the seventh round.
• Dozens of houses were flattened by the tornado.
• Prices are expected to flatten after the holiday shopping season.
• Users add that the foam feels high-quality and doesn't flatten, even after months of use.
  — Kayla Hui, Health.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• The compressible wrap can be flattened out to pack easily and be used as a blanket, too.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2024
• More buildings appeared newly destroyed, and a part of the village had been flattened.
  — Lauren Leatherby, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• Place a dough ball in one hand and flatten with the edge of your other palm to form a circle about 2 inches in diameter.
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
• That took it from [a] performance and flattened it into a presentation.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
• When Americans were forced to follow stay-at-home orders to help flatten the curve, many people turned to telework to stay productive.
  — Michael Plummer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• Daylight unveiled the full scale of destruction: homes flattened; roads inundated; cars flipped; trees toppled; and power lines felled.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 1 Oct. 2024
• Its grease-reducing properties remove heavy buildup that might otherwise flatten the roots, making hair look more voluminous and fuller post-shower.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Oct. 2024
• The organization said volunteers would head toward Swannanoa, where homes have been flattened and roads are impassable.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
• Gather the dough together into a ball, flatten into a circle no less than 1 inch thick, cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour up to overnight.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
• Opting for a ground raid allowed the commandos to try to safely evacuate civilians from the building — something not possible in an airstrike, which might flatten the building.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• But controlling for those problems shows that new cases in many of Alabama’s urban areas started to flatten, or even decline, earlier this month.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 28 Jan. 2022
• Identifying Boxelder Bugs Boxelder bug adults have red eyes and a charcoal grey or black oval, flattened body about ½-inch long with a few red lines forming a pattern on the back.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2024
• Last week offered some promising early signs of those trends, as the state’s weekly test positivity rate appeared to flatten and the rate of increase for hospitalizations began to slow.
  — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• It was picked up and thrown across the yard and flattened.
  — Dalia Faheid, CNN, 13 July 2024
• This style of the jeans helps to both cinch the waist and flatten the stomach.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• The first step was to flatten out the space in his pictures.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• The tool helped flatten their learning curve, the study found.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2023
• Use the back of the spoon to flatten it into a round patty.
  — Vallery Lomas, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• Trim the crusts off the bread slices and use a rolling pin to flatten each slice into a square.
  — Lynne Sherwin, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2022
• Rock your rolling pin back and forth over the parchment to flatten the dough.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 8 Dec. 2023
• That’s kinda the main goal, to flatten out the swing a little bit.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
• Flattening Lay the bar across the anvil's width to flatten its end.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
• Remove the sheet and bang it on the cooktop or counter to flatten the cookies.
  — Sarah Carey, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• Place a piece of plastic wrap on top and use a meat mallet to flatten.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2024
• The rapid population growth San Ramon experienced in the first two decades of this century has flattened.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024