Example sentences for: flopped

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

  • Critics of the new rules say that circuit breakers flopped in their NYSE debut.

  • 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.

  • So why is Bird's coaching career taking off when Magic's flopped?

  • Nobuyuki Idei, the new president of Sony--whose major films last year featured expensive stars and either flopped or broke even--has declared that his first priority for Hollywood is to liberate it from the tyranny of stars . Why do stars get paid so much money?

  • 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.


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