Example sentences for: flatly

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

  • This holding not only has no foundation in our jurisprudence; it is flatly contradicted by a recent decision that is on all fours with the present case.

  • The decision, by Sandra Day O'Connor, gives much comfort to Abrams and the Brooklyn Museum by flatly stating that "the First Amendment certainly has application in the subsidy context."

  • The HJC is expected to vote today or tomorrow and the papers flatly assume that a censure proposal will be defeated and that at least one article of impeachment will pass.

  • The final, most striking category of discrepancy involves public events where official records exist and flatly contradict Reich.

  • I recall to my credit that, when she was despairing of ever doing anything more with her life and muttered, You can't teach an old dog new tricks, I cheered her up by flatly opposing her: It's never too late to learn.


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