Sentence examples for flattening from inspiring English sources

It had torn around round the island for about 36 hours, and given it a real thrashing, flattening vegetation, whipping off a few roofs and generally causing trouble.

Spoon the batter into the tin, gently flattening the top.

Across the industry credit-card delinquencies are flattening out.Nevertheless, the mood is cautious.

I pass giant bulldozers flattening snow for roads, forklifts carrying cargo pallets and darting snowmobiles.

The troops spent April 17th flattening olive groves and digging in around Beit Hanoun, the northernmost Palestinian town.

The bank reckons that the average value of exports (for 44 economies accounting for three-quarters of world trade) dropped by 15.4% in November, held steady in December and plunged by 12.2% in January before flattening out.The precipitate drop in trade far more marked than anything that has happened to global GDP was caused in part by the way production is now organised.

But Dr Tyler has developed a cuff electrode that allows discrimination by gently flattening the femoral nerve without damaging it.

He also worries that exiting QE in the order planned - ending bond purchases, before short rates rise - will lead to a steepening of the yield curve (higher long rates, relative to short rates).The Fed has been relying for five years now on flattening the yield curve as the best way to inject more stimulus into the economy.

Large firms are getting better at avoiding bureaucratic stagnation: they are flattening their hierarchies and opening themselves up to ideas from elsewhere.

But the two sides need not necessarily be opposed.From the top-down point of view, one of the main attractions of gathering and using data about cities is "flattening the urban peaks", in the words of David Gann of Imperial College in London, who chairs a board set up to develop ideas for making Britain's capital work more cleverly.

AMID the ageing brick warehouses of South Boston, an assembler at the Cole Hersee switch plant inserts the pin into a roller connecter, flattening each end with a metal press to keep it secure.