A flat-topped boat called the On-Time Ferry takes people and cars to a nearby small island,Chappaquiddick.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

To make his guitar, Les Paul attached guitar strings and two electronic pickup devices onto a flat piece of wood from a railroad track.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

A ball of clay is placed on a flat wheel device that turns quickly.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

One of the hands keeps a flat hand shape and it just kind of lightly moves back and forth as if it were a flickering image on a screen."

VOA: special.2011.04.13

A skeleton is a flat kind of sled.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The runway is built on a flat stretch of land on a hill, with a sheer drop on both sides.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Whether that result is positive or if is a flat result or something in between - something that we're not quite sure what it is - it is the first ever anti-retroviral containing product.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

"You look for a banjo, then you look for a flat top guitar, got to have the stand-up bass, a fiddle works really well, and then you get the old mandolin in because a mandolin really has got some good sound to it too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

"Well,one of the things that's interesting about these flexible sheets is that they can be curved, so you could imagine putting them in unconventional forms, like on the surface of a vehicle or something like that, where you don't have a flat surface."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

A ceramist creates several flat pieces of clay that can be joined together to make the sides of the container.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

The supplies you will need are sterling silver wire,round-nosed pliers, flat-nosed pliers,flat-nosed pliers with a tip, and flush cutters."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

People driving during a tornado are told to find low ground and lay flat,facedown, with their hands covering their head.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

They can develop as flat, discolored areas of skin or as raised growths, often with a rough surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

The artist draws an image with oily ink onto a piece of stone or other flat surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

A one-hour trip in a small airplane makes it possible to see the park's red rocks, arches and flat areas where ancient Indian people once lived.

VOA: special.2009.04.15