Example sentences for: flat

How can you use “flat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At least he could relax in the United States of America, a country as God-obsessed as any in the Middle Ages, where Christian fundamentalists (our Taliban) never shut up about his opposition to gay rights and abortion or his enthusiasm for capital punishment, the flat tax, and an anti-missile system to be built in Trent Lott's district.

  • In no time flat, she turned it into the most talked about magazine in America.

  • The Sopranos takes advantage of its commercial-free environment to be comparatively fearless in the face of flat dramatic affect.

  • The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.

  • Back of the envelope, it seems that every working American pays a flat 15 percent of salary, plus around 5 percent to 10 percent in state and sales taxes on every dollar earned or spent, respectively, plus some unknown amount in property taxes (and renters get screwed the most here, since rent of course includes prorated property tax pass-throughs), plus gasoline taxes, plus some special local taxes (such as D.C.'s extra taxes on restaurant meals, liquor, and other "sin" taxes).


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