How to Use flop in a Sentence

flop

1 of 2 verb
Definition of flopnext
Synonyms for flopnext
  • 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
  • In Maine, there was a lake with mist rising off it in the mornings, the call of loons, a dock for Murphy to belly-flop off.
    — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • But that element will have to be pronounced the same, or pretty dang close, or the joke will flop.
    — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
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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

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