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Before forks and chopsticks, people usually ate food with a piece of flat bread.

[flat] flat

It is fairly safe to say that the family bound for Australia, or wherever it may be, has in its mind a vision of a nice house, or a flat, with maybe a bit of garden.

Shurrup! Don't make such a fuss over a little headache. I'm flat out of magical power - this is all your fault!

Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."

I like this flat. The location is good, and besides, rent is not very high.

Did you ever try keeping your flat completely free from dust?

A warm, lazy breeze wafts across the flat, endless fields.

When the shooting died down a bit, Daddy ran over to our flat and brought us back some sandwiches.

Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.

I can't afford to buy my own flat, but I'm thinking of taking out a loan.

Why do you pay so much for the flat? This is some special kind of mildew on these walls?

I like to perform magic tricks for kids, but they sometimes fall flat.

When the chickens are flat as pancakes, then again the tractor must have been faster than them.

straight hair

She was born with underdeveloped lungs, but eventually a few steroid shots set her straight.

With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.

It is characteristic of the fork ball, one of baseball's change-ups, that a ball that flew straight will drop suddenly just before the batter.

Ronpari is a word that designates those whose eyes don't look straight, but in different directions to the left and right, as if they were looking at Paris and London.

Taking into account the time I'd just spent napping, I'm really picking up the sense that this time's exam really won't be straight forward.

In a time-bound society time is seen as linear- in other words as a straight line extending from the past, through the present, to the future.

I was flabbergasted to hear that she died of a drug overdose. She always seemed like such a straight arrow to me.

Go straight, then take the second street to the left and turn immediately again to the right. That will be Karlova Street and then you should keep going straight across Charles Bridge to Mostecka Street and on to Malostranské Square.

Ah, y-yes ... Sorry, Coz. "Hey! You might be my relative but here I'm your senior and a doctor. Keep things straight while you're in the hospital!"

I didn't know what was what. The inside of my head had gone to panic mode and I couldn't get things straight.

Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.

Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase "Don't blindly follow America's lead!"