Sentence examples for flat English from inspiring English sources

(If some of the more rhapsodic passages do seem clichéd, let us give her the benefit of the doubt and assume they are deliberate echoes of a French romantic voice rendered into slightly flat English).

Again there was something dully inevitable about this plot turn that not even Tennant – boasting a flat English accent that was half-London, half-Birmingham (perhaps that's how people sound in Milton Keynes) – could appear convincingly surprised.

The reader quickly gets under the skin of this idiosyncratic, humorous loner "with an irascible temper and flat English feet"—a man for whom duty was paramount and a standard life not an option: "I wanted something out of the ordinary, something that had no right to work, something ridiculous or downright dangerous".

While most of the trip meanders through flat English countryside, the end section towards Cambridgeshire is somewhat hilly and requires strength and endurance.

Living in a flat with English people has had a dramatic effect on my English and my understanding of the culture.

The book is now an international sensation, hailed as the hip new face of the Chinese avant-garde.Despite all the spin, this semi-autobiographical novel falls somewhat flat in English.

We've gained 7 points in math, mostly since 2005, and, while we're flat in English, on the last exam we were up 3 points, boding well for the future.

Be on guard for heat stroke, a common occurrence in the flat-faced English Bulldog.

The Regent's Park flat combines an English fireplace and a velvet English sofa with some unexpectedly contemporary lamps and a mock-zebra- skin footstool.

I become very calm, very flat - very English".

The race is the first of English flat racing's five classics.