Example sentences for: flop

How can you use “flop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • James Cameron's budget-busting epic, expected to be a Waterworld -style flop, winds up getting mostly good reviews.

  • I want to thank critic Michael Sragow for encouraging me to catch the commercial flop Babe: Pig in the City before the movie ended its nightmarishly brief run in theaters.

  • Like his previous book, Sleepers , which was adapted into a Robert De Niro movie, Carcaterra's latest novel is both an instant best seller and a critical flop.

  • When the WP broke the story earlier this year of Al Gore's White House telemarketing, Gore's press conference in response was a salute to legalese and flop sweat.

  • The London-based al-'Arab said Cohen's Gulf tour had been successful as an arms-selling exercise but a relative flop politically because he had "failed to obtain the traditional show of collective Gulf support for the policy of aggression his country pursues against Iraq."


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