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  • adjective having a flat or flattened upper surface

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Examples

  • It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees.

    Toxic Sludge Could Spill Again, Hungary Government Warns AP 2010

  • It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees.

    Toxic Sludge Could Spill Again, Hungary Government Warns AP 2010

  • Standout scene: Muntz's pack of canines pursues Carl, who drags his airborne house via a hose, Russell, Kevin and Dug in a harrowing chase through the nooks and crannies of the flat-topped tepui mountains.

    Non-explosive entertainment can be just as enjoyable 2009

  • It's formed by walls at least 50 yards high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards thick at their base to 45 yards at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees.

    Toxic Sludge Could Spill Again, Hungary Government Warns AP 2010

  • We trundle south beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, south past running ostriches, baboons and goshawks, down past flat-topped acacias and euphorbias with stems vivid as trails of fireworks.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I Richard Bangs 2011

  • Therefore, we—as the children of monkeys who fetishized symmetry and evenness—inherited a desire to live in a perfectly round world instead of a flat-topped oblate spheroid; to want planets that traveled in perfectly round orbits instead of weird egg-shaped ellipses and an Earth that looked like an inkblot with the equator as the fold.

    X, Chapter 3: Morowitz Benjamin Matvey 2012

  • It is here you will find the distinctive blue canopy of Neal's Yard Dairy with its flat-topped pyramids of Tymsboro cheese.

    Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best Newcomer: Maltby Street 2011

  • His son, Sarbjeet Singh, who sports a flat-topped hairdo says only two of his friends have gotten jobs outside of farming—and they had to leave the country to find them.

    On Punjab's Farms, 'Everybody Has No Jobs' Geeta Anand 2011

  • All classics with the astounding performance by Boris Karloff in the 1931 Frankenstein showing why the flat-topped creature is one of cinema's defining images.

    Halloween horrors: new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2011

  • We trundle south beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, south past running ostriches, baboons and goshawks, down past flat-topped acacias and euphorbias with stems vivid as trails of fireworks.

    Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I Richard Bangs 2011

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