Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: flats
IPA transcription: [fl'æts]
Pronunciations of flats
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: flats
    Meaning: footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)
Usage examples
  • "On Fourth Avenue," said Billy Windsor, "you can get quite good flats very cheap.
  • For these things Cupid will have to answer when he stands at the bar of justice with his victims from the Frogmore flats.
  • Nobody heard the click and rattle of the cog-wheels as the third-floor front of the Frogmore flats buzzed its machinery back into the Order of Things.
  • On one of my first jaunts into the suburbs of Tallahassee I noticed not far from the road a bit of swamp,--shallow pools with muddy borders and flats.
  • The horse was seen descending the hill, and the wearisome series had to be repeated in reverse order: Whitepits, Springmead, Cappel's Piece, The Flats, Middle Field, Sheeplands, Sixteen Acres.
  • The doctor and Sir Richmond walked round the walls, surveyed the shadow cast by Silbury upon the river flats, strolled up the down to the northward to get a general view of the village, had tea and smoked round the walls again in the warm April sunset.
  • And at last they touched the ground, and when daylight came they waded to the shore; and saw nothing round but sand, and desolate salt pools; for they had come to the quicksands of the Syrtis, and the dreary treeless flats, which lie between Numidia and Cyrene, on the burning shore of Africa.
  • Indians ran along the river-bank firing off rifles in welcome, and opposite the flats where the fort gate opened, on what is now Main Street, the company's men came out and fired a royal salute. The people bound for Cariboo camped on the flats outside Fort Garry. Here was a strange world indeed.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bidet, License CC BY-SA 4.0