Example sentences for: flopped

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

  • A few years later, he got Columbia to spend the then-preposterous figure of $40 million on Ishtar . It flopped, but Beatty walked away unscathed.

  • Several times a day I still think of Parkes' disquisition on the now-obsolete punctuation mark known as a percontativus , a question mark flopped backward and used to indicate a question that is purely rhetorical.

  • But key escrow flopped, too.

  • Noting that the hits from last year's competition flopped at the box office, critics declare the independent-film boom over.

  • It flopped, and Philbin was dumped for Merv Griffin.


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