Sentence examples for would have flattened from inspiring English sources

Cook was out to the second ball, playing no shot to a straight ball from Ryan Harris which would have flattened off stump.

But Ms. Foley endured mostly by keeping her head down, adhering to a schedule that would have flattened her less-resilient peers.

But beyond discussing the books, I was curious to see how Walls survived a childhood that would have flattened most people.

(New York was fortunate to have been spared Robert Moses' proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have flattened much of today's SoHo).

Famously, Alinsky's people threatened to occupy the toilets of Chicago's airport as part of a protest against a runway extension that would have flattened their neighbourhood.

While he disapproved of those attacks, including the June attack, the commander, Mohammed Ali al-Zahawi, told The Washington Post, "If it had been our attack on the U.S. Consulate, we would have flattened it".

Scores have flattened out.

They often have flattened bodies.

Most aquatic stereospondyls have flattened heads.

"I'd be much more concerned if the yield curve had flattened — that would be a very bearish signal for all risk markets".

"If we'd had frame houses, everything would have been flattened," said Vince Cann, a cabdriver whose house was undamaged.