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verb

past tense of flatten

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of flattened
Adjective
Quickly pinch butter into flour mixture to create flattened pieces. — Carla Hall, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025 The company’s smaller sized safes, which begin at $1,350 per year and are the size of a semi-flattened shoebox, are all currently occupied. — Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025 This garden party designer dollset comes with a poseable Barbie doll that stands on a base, a pre-flattened Play-Doh sheet that looks like fabric with fun designs and three extra cans of colorful Play-Doh for endless outfits. — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2024
Verb
Using the textured side of a meat mallet, gently pound the meat until it’s slightly flattened, creating indentations all over the surface. — Natalia Vela, Southern Living, 3 Nov. 2026 In either case, had the truck not responded at all, the car would have been flattened and its occupants would not likely have survived at those speeds. — New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026 Distance is often flattened in horror through spatial-temporal confusion. — Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026 Beanie had flattened herself through a crack where the narrow window frame had separated from the wall. — Madeline Ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026 Instead, the adoption curve has been flattened thanks to products like Muse from Meta and OpenAI’s Dots. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026 Here, his clumsy, winky, affected, and self-undercutting direction can’t even work the charming Jenna Ortega to a great performance, as her Klara is flattened into a bundle of manic pixie mannerisms both physical and verbal. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026 That flattened front-end design is lifted loosely from the GT1 Le Mans racer, while the back half has tinges of the 959. — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 15 Oct. 2026 The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank. — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flattened
Adjective
  • With the risen dough still in the bowl, fold one quadrant over itself into the center of the bowl (the fold will look like a rounded triangle).
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • These five exercises target the front, sides, and back of your shoulders for a well-rounded workout.
    — Jakob Roze, HEALTH, 3 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Have you ever been locked out of an account while using a VPN, or found a solution that smoothed things out?
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Facilities that once smoothed a few weeks of timing now sometimes carry a portfolio for months, occasionally across an entire fundraising cycle.
    — Peter Doyle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Falcons’ starting quarterback twirled a black string around his finger, then violently whipped it down after his first interception.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Brown became the leader of the House Trade Working Group, a caucus of Democratic representatives opposed to free-trade agreements who whipped votes on those deals.
    — Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Fajita chicken held at 88 degrees in a container on flat top grill.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Last year, Mercedes F1 revenue was £633 million ($849 million), which was basically flat from the prior campaign.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Looking ahead to the next quarter, things look less rosy for SPE, with The Social Reckoning and Klara and the Sun both already having bombed at the box office.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • In 1998, after Baghdad expelled UN weapons inspectors, the United States and the United Kingdom bombed Iraq.
    — S. C. M. Paine, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • The 302,324-square-foot, multi-level property underwent a multimillion-dollar rebranding in 2023.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The multi-level residence offers five bedrooms, six full bathrooms, and two powder rooms in roughly 6,500 square feet.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • But many of us have buried our beloved pets in our yards beneath new trees as an alternative to cremation.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The synth melody is poignant through the buds, but the upper vocal harmony and some of the upper-register atmospheric instruments are slightly buried.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • That means arbitrary Drake covers and Max B homages, smooth ballads on smashing cougars and dirty macking.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Sorrells congratulated Burks on her victory and said his office will work with her to ensure a smooth transition.
    — Emerson Clarridge Updated November 3, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026

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“Flattened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flattened. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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