How to Use flop in a Sentence

flop

1 of 2 verb

• The curtains were flopping around in the breeze.
• She flopped into the chair with a sigh.
• He flopped down onto the bed.
• All of their attempts have flopped miserably.
• The good news is that the rest of the ACC continues to flop.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• Ezra rubbed his eye with the back of his hand, flopped his head to the side, and cooed.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• Characters swap songs, and the songs flop around in the plot.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Kyiv saw through this gambit, and the peace talks flopped.
  — Bob Seely, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2023
• Quinoa is a tall plant but will flop from the weight and could use a support.
  — oregonlive, 17 June 2021
• At some point, the road gets rough and the dummies start flopping around.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• ETFs and new futures contracts flop all the time, to be sure.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• All of which is to say: Many of us are ready to flop over, just like Noodle.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 22 Oct. 2021
• Davis said one of the key to his success in taking charges is not to flop.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2022
• What to Consider The brim might flop up if there's a strong breeze.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• What to Consider: The brim might flop up if there's a stiff breeze.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2022
• In the first true test of his encore season, Williams flopped.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• The tip of the peak should flop back over onto itself rather than stick up straight.
  — Samantha MacAvoy, Good Housekeeping, 22 Oct. 2021
• The contact sent Carlos limp in midair, leaving his body to flop to the grass.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• The problem for writers was that most shows flopped, so there was no back end to get a piece of.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
• As with Buffalo, the Bengals are too good to flop two weeks in a row.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• After a hearty portion of pumpkin pie, most of us want to flop on the couch and watch TV.
  — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• Romeo would run to the door when his mama would come home and would flop over for his loving.
  — cleveland, 26 May 2022
• This is the first kind of rule the league has created to limit flopping.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Kids can flip, flop and prod the Nugget, from a sofa to bed to fort without help from mom or dad.
  — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
• Weirdly enough, there’s a good chance those teams flop seeding in the coming weeks.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2020
• The trio also talked about bringing the rare Sondheim flop back to Broadway.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• The league noted that referees can also call fouls and flops on the same play.
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• If the Pop-over flopped, Klein would be saddled with miles of excess fabric.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• An alarming string of box office bombs last year led by the Lucasfilm Indiana Jones flop prompted Peltz to return.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
• So, the next time you’re tempted to mindlessly flop on to the cushions, pause and consider these simple yet effective stretches.
  — Dana Santas, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024

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flop

2 of 2 noun

• It fell to the ground with a flop.
• The movie was a total flop.
• Boots – Flip flops are great for the beach but not the playa.
  — Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
• At 26, he was faced with the worst kind of flop: the public kind.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2023
• The sandwich was a flop and was removed from the menu in 2000.
  — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
• This is how Chapek’s reign ends: not with a whimper, but with a flop.
  — Vulture, 28 Nov. 2022
• Scott hit a free throw when Davis was called for a flop trying to draw a charge.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023
• When the budget got cut, the actor knew the movie would be a massive flop.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• In the wake of that flop, Bacharach and David sued each other; Dionne Warwick launched a suit of her own against the team.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• This flop is right at home on the sand or out on daily errands.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 31 Aug. 2023
• The most shocking flop of 2022, though, was Disney's Lightyear.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Dec. 2022
• At the box office this weekend the chasm between the hits and the flops was truly yawning.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 28 May 2023
• It was found with other random things like small bouys and a flip flop.
  — J. Staas Haught, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2022
• On the Roam, a T-shirt in various colors with flip flops to match.
  — Wendy Geller, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
• The flop that was Apple’s Duo used a Lightning port and did not include an adapter.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2023
• Now Thankfully the late 1970s wasn’t a complete flop for Ford.
  — Brittany Natale, Country Living, 12 July 2023
• Arizona State appears to get away with a travel and hits a three, then is called for a flop.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2023
• The now-favorite was, by all accounts, a box office flop.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• Sell many fewer, and Cybertruck will be an almighty flop.
  — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2023
• The Sony film is one of the biggest flops in comic book movie history.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
• In other words, men's flip flops aren't made for long distance slogs.
  — Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 25 May 2023
• But the evidence suggests that the flop is on Nike more than anyone else.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
• The first draft of the Papago Freeway Tunnel was unveiled in 1973… and was a huge flop.
  — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• From the waist down, the vibe was the opposite, a pair of simple white cotton boxer shorts and black flip flops.
  — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023
• Just over a week later, they were finished, swept out by the Flyers in Games 4, 5, 6, and 7 in a historic flop.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2023
• Here’s a list of some beloved items that no longer grace McDonald’s kitchens, as well as a couple of flops.
  — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 30 July 2023
• The crust tasted bitter and acrid too—a flop all around, really.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
• Four years later, 28 of 40 high jumpers in the Munich Olympics were using Fosbury’s flop.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• Spike Lee’s 2013 remake of Oldboy was a box-office flop.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024