They flattened suddenly, when he poked in from the hallway and made a back-and-forth gesture with a gun.

Inside the line of allreds, the landscape flattened suddenly, manicured lawn stretching as though cut with a level from the tidy edge of the carpet of fallen leaves to the fretted door.

The man suddenly flattened as part of the concrete stairs fell inwards.

Holding the second bottle, he suddenly flattened himself along the eaves.

At the next crossing street, he turned to his right at the same steady unhurried pace, then suddenly flattened his back against the front of a stable that stood hard on the corner.

The eagle suddenly flattened its wings to swoop down, snatching it up with inch-perfect precision.

It ridged, undulated and suddenly flattened again.

For a moment each missile seemed to stammer, hanging tail-down before suddenly flattening its arc and rocketing away in a burst of intense white light, spreading a yellow-tinged halo.

One of the Zungan scouts suddenly flattened himself against a tree, then cautiously waved Blade forward.

Laric's mare suddenly flattened her ears, displayed her large white teeth, and lashed out with one hind hoof.