How to Use through the floor in a Sentence
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Press through the floor with both of your feet and squeeze your glutes to stand back up.
— Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 July 2023 -
Push your feet through the floor and pull the weight up, keeping the bar close to your body.
— Men's Health, 11 July 2023 -
Brace your core and push through the floor to lift hips, squeezing glutes at the top.
— Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Push your feet through the floor to stand straight up, squeezing your glutes at the top.
— Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 4 May 2023 -
The pulsing rhythm vibrates through the floor and walls up through your body and fingertips.
— Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023 -
The pulsing rhythm vibrates through the floor and walls up through your body and fingertips.
— Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023 -
From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
— Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022 -
How many of us, after all, tuned in to watch Princess Rhaenys soar through the floor of the Dragonpit astride her dragon, Meleys?
— Laura Zornosa, Time, 16 Dec. 2022 -
The lag bolts are of an insufficient size and may pull through the floor, causing the floor to separate from the frame of the trailer.
— Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2020 -
Savvy car buyers check for rust by seeing if a screwdriver will punch through the floor pans.
— Chuck Wilcoxen, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023 -
Consumer confidence fell through the floor, and retail sales sank.
— Cnn Business, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021 -
Long, narrow hallways cut through the floor plan, leading to lofts, nooks and other cozy spaces.
— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Essentially, dropping the main element of the rear wing causes the airflow to stall on the beam wing and also slow through the floor.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023 -
After the pandemic hit, people stopped moving around, and demand for ride-hail went through the floor.
— Aarian Marshall, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021 -
As firefighters entered the building, one of them came in through a window and fell through the floor underneath him, Smith said.
— Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023 -
McCarthy was expected to attempt to strike deals, even through the floor votes as necessary.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023 -
Stone also encases a square floor-to-ceiling column, and the peak of Bourne’s Rock actually pops up through the floor.
— John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Left untreated, a swarm of termites can chew through the floor joists and roof rafters of a house, weakening your home from the inside, Alexander explains.
— Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 27 July 2023 -
Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor.
— Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021 -
The cars run directly beneath, sending vibrations up through the floor.
— Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 30 Jan. 2023 -
Late last month, the bill was shot down in the Health and Welfare Committee, but the Senate voted to revive the legislation last week, quickly moving the ban through the floor.
— Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2023 -
There’s human error too—sometimes students drop things through the floor, and that imperfection causes a way for the sound to reflect.
— Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023 -
But while everyone's distracted, Rhaenys sneaks back her dragon, Meleys, and rides it up through the floor, probably killing a bunch of people in the process.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 17 Oct. 2022 -
Amangiri Just staring out through the floor to ceiling windows of a contemporary suite at the jagged canyons in southern Utah is enough for a first step in a restorative journey.
— Laurie Werner, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021 -
Investigators found a pool of blood in the basement dripping through the floor above, according to police reports.
— Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Kelley said the firefighter, Lieutenant Neil Duggan, a 10-year veteran of the department, fell through the floor up to his waist but with help from others in his crew was able to pull himself out.
— John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023 -
Following the Reputation era segment of her three-hour concerts, Swift normally descends through the floor for a wardrobe change.
— Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 2 July 2023 -
Firefighters found the fire blazing on the second floor of the complex; one firefighter fell through the floor but was uninjured, WKMG reported.
— Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2021 -
Her elderly upstairs neighbor had died during the heat wave; fluids from her decomposing body had leaked through the floor into the downstairs unit.
— Shannon Osaka, Washington Post, 10 July 2023 -
In another community, Loaka, children were crammed into two classrooms in a riverside schoolhouse built on stilts that pierced holes through the floor.
— New York Times, 22 June 2022
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