Example Sentences

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If there is to be much finishing, the grain had better be crushed, but for large books that are to have only a small amount of finishing, the grain is best left unflattened.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel

His voice, deep and full for so young a child, inclined to unflattened vowels.

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart

I dug it out of the wood with my knife—so you see I got it almost unflattened.

From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Their distance from the centre, compared with the radius of the unflattened circle, is called the excentricity.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir