Sentence examples for flattop from inspiring English sources

Rock strode onstage looking much younger than his twenty-three years: a bucktoothed kid with a multicolored leather jacket, a Jheri-curled flattop, and state-of-the-art Air Jordan III sneakers.

Throughout the film, it keeps reasserting itself, coming from the giant boom box of Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), a tall, broad-shouldered guy with a flattop, a focussed, serious expression, and a BED-STUY DO OR DIE T-shirt.

The flattop guitarist most widely admired for his touch is Tony Rice, who is Eldridge's mentor and who appears to be invalided out of playing from pain in his hands.

Aside from their sensibilities and the elegant intelligence that each brings to the instrument, what makes their sound distinctive is that both are playing flattop guitars without amplification.

Nowadays, his set usually consists of a three-inch snare; a floor tomtom tipped on its side and equipped with legs, a foot pedal, and a cowbell; and a thin, eighteen-inch, hand-hammered, flattop ride cymbal.

I said, 'You mean you want a Detroit?' Of course, in New Jersey they used to call it a flattop with fenders".

In Canada the highest level lies at about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres), in the flattops of the Shickshocks (French: Chic-Chocs); another level exists at 2,000 feet (600 metres) on Mount Carleton; and lower ones lie at roughly 1,100 feet (300 metres) and 600 feet (180 metres) in the Acadian ranges.

The formerly dense forest cover has been partially removed to provide farmlands in the basins and on the lower flattops.

They were larger and louder than flattops, yet more articulate — perfect for fleet-fingered jazz solos that could cut through a blare of horns.

Fender solved this problem by giving electric guitars solid bodies; Martin kept most of its flattops purely acoustic; Gibson's archtops fell somewhere in between.

It will have to outperform the best old archtops and be more versatile than the finest flattops.