Sentence examples for were flatter from inspiring English sources
verb
To compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
Book sales were flatter than desired.
With tougher capital requirements on catastrophe reinsurers from rating agencies, that led to big premium increases in America when contracts were renewed in January and July (they were flatter in Europe and Asia).
The breakup of the Stone Roses culminated in another gig that has achieved mythic status for all the wrong reasons: the band's headlining set at the Reading festival in 1996, after John Squire and Reni, the drummer, had quit and Brown's vocals were flatter than the flattest of caps.
Sales were flatter than pitta bread.In this section The next frontier After the horse has been bolted The say-on-pay payday Up the right aisle Running out of road Time is money Smog and mirrors How to make a killing ReprintsEnter Georges Plassat, the new boss who joined Carrefour last year.
Further downstream, the profiles were flatter with a fall-off at larger particle diameters.
In the high-fat munchers, the usual day-to-night peaks and valleys in clock gene expression in the brain, fat, and liver were flatter than normal, perhaps accounting for the animals' daytime wakefulness.
Not all 400 were flattering.
Its management structure is flatter.
His promised land is flatter.
Second, more recent curves are flatter.
