- flop
- 01. He [flopped] down on the bed, and fell asleep almost instantly.02. The play was a total [flop], and was shut down after three days.03. The children [flopped] onto the grass to have a rest.04. Many movies which [flop] at the cinema become popular when made available on video.05. She had a [floppy] hat on that looked pretty funny.06. We saw a bunny at the petting zoo with long, [floppy] ears.07. The clown had enormous [floppy] shoes on that made the children laugh with delight.08. He head [flopped] heavily to his chest as he fell asleep in his chair.09. I backed my files up on a [floppy] in case of a problem with the computer.10. A lot of people don't use [floppies] anymore because they just put their files on the net so that they can access them from anywhere.11. The fish was [flopping] around on the bottom of the boat.12. The hump of a starving camel may [flop] over, and hang down the side of its body as the fat is used up.13. Songwriter Alan Jay Lerner once noted that you write a hit the same way you write a [flop].14. Our new publicity campaign is a total [flop] which has cost us thousands of dollars in lost revenue.15. Peter Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" was originally a huge [flop] when it premiered at the Marinski Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.