Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A plain of northwest Utah west of Great Salt Lake in the bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville. The flats are often used for speed-test trials.
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Examples
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The Bonneville Salt Flats is a desert area on the Nevada-Montana boarder, know for huge expanses of flat.
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The Bonneville Salt Flats is the site of land speed records.
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She drove the pace car at the Daytona 500 and set land-speed records in jet cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
A Match for Men in the Skies Stephen Miller 2011
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Is a potash mine to blame for turning the hard white crust of the Bonneville Salt Flats into mush and slush?
Racers at Bonneville Salt Flats Pepper Potash Firm With Complaints Barry Newman 2011
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One mile more, and a YIELD sign rises from the roadside, which is a bit like finding a crossing guard at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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The drive to Wendover is 120 miles west on I-80, passing the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats, one of the flattest places on the planet—so flat that you can see the curvature of the earth.
Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010
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On the other side of the line are two kinds of bicyclists, most pedaling peacefully, a few confusing bike commuting with driving rocket cars on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Archive 2009-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009
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On the other side of the line are two kinds of bicyclists, most pedaling peacefully, a few confusing bike commuting with driving rocket cars on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Power Struggle: Sucking, and Sucking it Up BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He fires it up from time to time to show off, and he plans to run it flat-out at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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Although the story line is perhaps overly simplistic and too linear, being as straight as the Bonneville Salt Flats track, fans will enjoy the “Resurrection of Matthew Swift”.
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