Example sentences for: flops

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

  • If anything, the director seems to have suffered from a surfeit of dignity, proving too proud to overcome the loss of a powerful patron and a couple of ambitious flops.

  • The revival of the 1959 musical is being hailed as one of the most monumental Broadway flops in years.

  • Recent Wyncom flops: Spending weeks and losing half a million dollars getting just 5,250 people into Denver's big basketball arena to hear Tom Peters, and losing $700,000 when only 2,700 folks showed up at the Georgia Dome to hear Covey and Colin Powell.

  • ** I don't want to speculate on the psychosexual meaning of "high-butt" versus "low-butt" automobiles, except to note that a) it's pretty darn obvious; b) in keeping with a), men seem to uniformly like the high-rear designs, while those who like the low-rear look tend to be women; c) the low-rear look has abjectly failed in the market--the Altima, the J30, and the disastrous 1996 redesign of the Ford Taurus being the three most obvious flops.

  • Taxes do not empower the individual, they empower the government and sucker people by taking their extra income to fund government-program flops.


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