Sentence examples for became flattened from inspiring English sources

His affect became flattened.

As juveniles matured into adults, their horns curved forward and the epoccipitals bordering the frill became flattened.

It continued to evolve — in 1999, the shields became flattened pillars bearing sculpted bronze wreaths — but the tone of stolid, bland classicism remained.

When adhesion terminated, cells became flattened and gained appropriate morphology.

As the original idealism of the Russian Revolution became flattened by the threat of German fascism, abortion became criminalized and the KGB became convinced that the Germans had sent a ring of homosexual spies to Russia who could easily spread their influence through queer networks.

The ameloblasts became flattened and separated from the surrounding tissues (Fig. 5C).

In four-limbed vertebrates (tetrapods), the tips of the limb buds become flattened and broadened into hand or foot plates.

Instead of perfectly round bones rotating in the hip sockets, mine had lost their shape, become flattened.

When the radial (topmost aspect of the leaf) is short, the base becomes flattened because the marginal meristems (those on either side of the midvein) continue to expand outward.

In the play, by contrast, they have more believable vigour and confusion, while their political standpoints become flattened into a series of attitudes: the Turncoat, the Chameleon, the Loyalist, and so on.

Here Hollinghurst's structure begins to bear fruit, as we see events, personalities, and relationships whose progress we have witnessed over decades become flattened and distorted by Paul's literal-minded determination to correct the record.