Sentence examples for edge of a flat from inspiring English sources

As if she were at the edge of a flat dark body of water that stretched on and on.

They then learned the story of the brave explorer who navigated into uncharted territory with sailors who were frightened of falling off the edge of a flat earth.

From the past, the focus will be on the beliefs, which now seem like pure fiction, but in their day were 'proven fact'… the edge of a flat world and the riches of alchemy.

He has hung a poster of a three-masted sailing ship tipping off the edge of a flat world, which he bought long before he wrote "The World Is Flat" — attracted, in part, by the title, which is "I Told You So".

They also involve games: some one-on-one basketball that turns violent in an unexpected way; a kind of one-on-one dodgeball with one player's heels at the edge of a flat roof, high enough for a mistake to be fatal.

They studied the numerical solution near the leading edge of a flat plate.

ON what may have been the coldest night of our visit, all seven of us trekked through the dark to the edge of Akas Lake, a flat white expanse — the ice was covered by snow.

It was called Po' Monkey's and it was an improvised juke-joint in a falling-down shack at the edge of a huge, flat cotton-field near Merigold, Mississippi.

As the sound of whooshing cars mingled with a fading choir of cicadas, fiddler crabs danced along the edge of a mud flat and diamondback turtles sunned themselves against the chilly fall air.

According to Paul Glenney, director of the company's clean energy technology center, the edge of a long, flat roof (above, say, a big-box store or warehouse) can experience up to 40percentt extra wind, much like the stiff breeze at the edge of a cliff.

Lay the sandpaper grit side up at the edge of a hard flat surface (table, counter top, or cutting board).