FLOP in a Sentence

Learn FLOP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
11 example sentences for FLOP, such as:
1. Her hair flopped over her eyes.
2. The show was the biggest flop in TV history.
3. The pile of books flopped noisily onto the floor.
4. Exhausted, he flopped (down) into the nearest chair.
5. Bunbury flopped down upon the bed and rested his tired feet.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FLOP
flop
 n.  a complete failure
 ad.  with a flopping sound
Classic Sentence:
1  Our old show will come flop; our civilization is going to fall.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered the dam, the pond, and the bank.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
3  I flopped down into that chair, and nothing would budge me until Mr. Soames he went for you.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
4  We had just floundered and flopped round a bend, when I saw an islet, a mere grassy hummock of bright green, in the middle of the stream.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
5  It flopped into something moist, and the general fell from his horse in a pool of blood.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  The show was the biggest flop in TV history.
2  The pile of books flopped noisily onto the floor.
3  Exhausted, he flopped (down) into the nearest chair.
4  The fish we'd caught flopped around in the bottom of the boat.
5  Bunbury flopped down upon the bed and rested his tired feet.
6  Her hair flopped over her eyes.