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. ❋ AP (2010)
It is here you will find the distinctive blue canopy of Neal's Yard Dairy with its flat-topped pyramids of Tymsboro cheese. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Heavy, solid, hard-cast and flat-topped, especially for the .44. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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. ❋ Benjamin Matvey (2012)
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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
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 (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. ❋ Geeta Anand (2011)
Notium, also known as Notion, was a town located on a flat-topped cliff high above the Aegean Sea ~13. 5 km northwest of Ephesus. ❋ AYDIN (2009)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He wore a brown, flat-topped, wool "Pawkul" hat and a tan wool-textured poncho -- both of which he personally acquired from Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Diz was sporting a flat-topped felt hat and a smart striped tie. ❋ Timothy M. Gay (2010)
A few flat-topped buttes, colors ranging from butterscotch to vanilla, were interspersed among the desertlike stretches. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)
Then Wolf saw two images on the Egg that made him start: some pyramidal rock formations in a desert, which he recognized as the pyramid-shaped rock islands at Abu Simbel in Egypt; and a great flat-topped mountain overlooking a bushy coastline that could only be Table Mountain in Cape Town. ❋ MATTHEW REILLY (2010)
Other than the small blue couch five or six feet from the foot of her bed, the only furniture is a flat-topped wooden desk my mother uses as a bedside table, a couple of straight-backed chairs for visitors, and a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf filled with books and photographs and knickknacks. ❋ Zoe FitzGerald Carter (2010)
Reefs are often categorized into more specific categories, such as patch reefs (small patches of reef that tend to grow within lagoonal back-reef areas), platform or bank reefs (isolated, flat-topped reefs that are larger than patch reefs and usually grow on mid-shelf regions), and ribbon reefs (long sinuous reefs that parallel the shelf break). ❋ Unknown (2010)