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Meanings of stretched flat in English

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Usage of stretched flat in English
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Until finally I'm cried out, silent, stretched flat on her grave.
The Girl I Used to Be
2
She stretched flat and turned the knob to quiet the stream.
Winter’s Bone
3
Zoran and Neo are lying in the street, stretched flat.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
4
The moors stretched flat and empty for miles about.
The dog said bow-wow
5
There he stretched flat, staring down at the scene that had so strongly aroused his curiosity.
African Camp Fires
6
He nailed the skin, stretched flat, on a board, and put it in the sun to dry.
Swiss Family Robinson
7
With their rifles in hand, and every man stretched flat upon the ground, Trent's little party lay waiting.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
8
They held him, pushed him, and in seconds the entire length of his body was stretched flat against the slide.
Funland
9
He found the Invincibles, that is, all who were left alive, stretched flat upon their sides or backs in the orchard.
The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
10
One stranded bell, stretched flat on a Co Galway beach in July, measured nearly 1.5 metres.
The Irish Times
11
Quest, half way to New York, stretched flat on his stomach, was struggling for life with knees and hands and feet.
The Black Box
12
They lie with their little necks and heads stretched flat on the ground and do not move so much as a hair.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
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No sooner had I handed it to her than she'd stripped to her panties, pulled on the T-shirt, and stretched flat out.
The Elephant Vanishes
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His battered felt hat was drawn low over the upper half of his face, and he was stretched flat upon the narrow bench.
Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman
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He came on McMahon stretched flat on his back, a tumbler full of lemon squash beside him and his novel in his hand.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
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Wherefore he streaked, stretched flat, and doubled into a bow, his shadow chasing him, and the she-wolf-afraidto be left alone-chasinghis shadow.
The Way of the Wild
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