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Sentence Examples Euro 1992 was a flop for Germany, and at USA '94 a team torn apart by internal strife were disastrously eliminated by unfancied Bulgaria. It may seem ungracious to describe Galway's loss to Mayo in the Connacht under-21 football semi-final in Castlebar last Wednesday as a flop. I could have stayed alive in the tournament by making a small raise on the flop rather than going all-in. With a hard yank from Bren, Pryce managed to flop across the horse's back on his stomach. A massive flop in America, the film is better than you feared but not nearly as good as you might have hoped. They walked along the same succulent sea by which pasty-white holiday makers tend to flop in order to obtain coffee brown tans. It seems that whenever she gets a little tired of hopping with her peg leg, she will flop wherever she happens to be. With quite the most eccentric vocal performance of this, or indeed of any other Eurovision, this could either sweep the board or flop completely. As for the rest of us, the latest installment to the Zorro story is a complete flop if not for the fact that it wields that beloved swashbuckler. A loose chinstrap allows a helmet to flop around, and thereby leaves you, the user, susceptible to injury in the event of a crash. Whereas the flop of the N-Gage was easy to predict, the future of these two is harder to see. Begin to stake early-flowering herbaceous plants, such as peonies, that are inclined to flop over following rain and strong winds. Everyone who's normal should flop around their homes aimlessly without a stitch of clothing on at least once a month. Of course, I had never seen a weighted, jangling, belly-swollen giant flop down a chimney and gaily dispense his largesse under a Christmas tree. I promptly filled the sink with water and dunked my head in, letting my ebony locks flop messily to the sides of my face. Judged on those criteria, the tour is undoubtedly a flop of monumental proportions. Just remember, a four-flush with A-K on the flop is a powerful hand that should be played aggressively. It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop. The door swung open and Kata walked in, dragging herself across the room to flop down on the couch, exhaling loudly. Yes, the film is very quirky and offbeat, which means it'll probably be a commercial flop. Show More Sentences Although it would be possible to flop a four-flush or flush, the hand would have little value unless you held the A of the suit. The sand of the beach shimmers under the African sun, and the wavelets that lazily flop onto the shore are crystal clear. It was a commercial flop, but made waves with critics and industry kingmakers. If you flop a four flush or an open-ended straight you can continue if the pot odds justify it, especially if you are drawing to the nuts. Then, with chilled air pouring in down the back of my neck, you flop into your seat, oblivious. They dropped a rope ladder that fell with a flop all the way to the ground. He hadn't been out of the flop in three weeks except to go to a corner store and buy food. But this turned out to be a flop in Italy and has fared little better elsewhere. He, being weak, was a total flop at sports and athletics, so he was all the jocks' favorite victim. I specifically voted against him on the sole basis that he flip-flopped on something or other and could very well flip flop again. He grinned mindlessly at his stupid analogy, moving to go and flop on the couch again, though this time with energy and not-so-much black. The area was swarming with people the way a school of fish in a net would flop about. But you do flop every two plays and you mostly have no reason to argue since most calls go your way, no? Why does a team with that much talent feel the need to flop every other play? A delightful surprise is Waiting in the Wings, Coward's fiftieth play, an undeserved flop in 1960 and a greatly deserving revival now. So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue trunks and did a massive belly flop on the starters gun. We had a feeling it would either go like hot cakes or flop so we ordered a middling amount and we were about right. The flower stems tend to flop and I find it best grown through other plants or some twiggy sticks. As a result, the album was a relative flop, failing to sell even one million copies. Two years after the introduction of picture messaging in Europe, MMS is still a flop. Show More Sentences His win in California this year exorcised the memory of a famous flop in the same event two years ago. Rather than admit the great man is in fact a great flop, they label these dedicated economic soldiers as treacherous. Published in 1941 in a country mobilizing for war, the book was a commercial flop. Pull the releases toward you, and the seat backs flop forward under the motive power of gravity. Predictions that the jubilee would flop have proved to be wildly inaccurate. So many cold decks, one after the other, makes me wonder what I have to flop to win a pot? So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue Speedos and did a massive unco belly flop on the starters gun. Finally, there is a five-metre body of water that I'll inelegantly call a flop pool. The outcome of the seat-sharing imbroglio was like an anti-climax in a Bollywood flop. The costumes, in other words, act as Procrustean beds, amputating those pesky limbs of anthropological knowledge that flop outside their predetermined grids. All investors should realize that the majority of shares sold at initial public offerings flop and fail to recover the price that they were sold at. Smith is pale and gangly, sporting a flop of dirty blond hair and a strikingly deep voice. When Fernandez got control of AirAsia it had been a limping, government-subsidized flop. Not surprisingly, the per diem proposal has been a flop since Moran floated it a few weeks ago. Google so far has floundered in the living room, with a half-baked product called Google TV that was a total flop. What could have been a frilly flop was given weight by DiCaprio and Mulligan, and Maguire, too. The key decision making and tactical maneuvers take place after the flop. Much as it may disappoint the flop of mediocrities who have decided to pursue power in Edinburgh, the Scottish executive was not created to be a national government. That's what Lindsay's character did in the 2009 straight-to-cable flop labor pains. He was the son of a servant of the Crown from a well-heeled South of England background, who shone at prep school but proved something of an academic flop later on. Show More Sentences Even his controversial television series The Human Face was not a complete flop, demonstrating that he was rather a good interviewer, unpatronising and genuinely curious. There's a new movie based on a hit Broadway play that was based on an earlier movie about a Broadway play that's supposed to flop, but it's an unexpected smash. In Tom's World, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose. Those are the universes where people thought that Mighton's stage play was a miserable flop, a clever-clever intellectual exercise with no emotional weight. Apparently movies flop because of texting, instant messaging and email. To my surprise it's a young boy with a freckled, eager face and brown hair styled to flop over one eye, wearing black, carrying a rucksack and a bag. The problem is they spent too much time teaching him to flop in practice. The asynchronously resettable flop immediately responds to a rising edge on reset, but the synchronously resettable flop responds to reset only on the rising edge of the clock. The book came out 30 years ago, and the film was an even bigger flop than that after-school Scrabble club you tried to start. Back walkover, flip flop, flip flop, double back with a hop. Lo and behold, the Ipanema flip flop with a strap is from Melissa, one of Brazil's largest footwear companies and the originator of the jelly shoe. The actor, who has had many rebirths in the industry, says he bounces back after a flop by lying low for six months to enable the public to forget the movie. His solution last season was to give chase a big flop and make him work superhard for a comeback. The Fosbury flop couldn't have come from a New Englander, and Olympic high jumpers wouldn't be jumping as high without it. We'd heard about him, stuck on Pharos, the Parthia flop still shamin him, and the ship thing soon after. Cute gentoo penguins rocket from the depths of their tank to flop out on the ice as the thermometer drops. A poisened foot was found to be the cause of that flop, but odds-on Paco was just too hot this time. Just before his 1997 departure, Schlondorff produced the 27 million mark flop Der Unhold. And boyo it's highly amusing to see Ex Factor flop Mr Jones attempting to maintain his trademark cockiness after crashing and burning in America. Sad Bramley apple with flop of a crop 6 I brought a Bramley apple tree two years ago with three apples on it. Show More Sentences Low-fi indie spin on the cringy kind of story that wasn't any funnier in Jon Heder's 2007 flop, Mama's Boy. Then, just a few years back, he didn't just fall from grace, he did the most enormous belly flop. An Aseman Airlines passenger jet made a belly flop landing Saturday at Zahedan airport, but there were no deaths and few injuries. Special sessions are nearly always a sign of a big emergency or a big legislative belly flop. The studio clearly overspent on marketing, and the movie was still a flop. It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year. The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop. Billy Vine, covered with flop sweat, started so-so, but in a few minutes he had them. In large individuals, the dorsal fin may flop to one side when above the surface. Gibbon's Memoires Litteraires failed to gain any notoriety, and was considered a flop by fellow historians and literary scholars. Fond memories of Party Wright Around The World as flop specialist Mark staged yet another of his sparsely attended knees-ups for hardly anyone. Their take on the flip flop is to pile a load of fake jewels on a leather flip flop. Maybe LaRussa realized that even if Rogers had pine tar on his hand, the rest of the Tigers had flop sweat on theirs. We'll soon be offering fizzy footbaths for flip flop wearers using our bath bombs. If he was good at Aintree last month after his Cheltenham flop, he was sensational at Punchy. Castle'' does a difficult double belly flop as it manages to be howlingly simplistic and ridiculously illogical at the same time. Let's say you're holding the Queen and Jack of spades and the flop shows the King of diamonds, 10 of hearts and seven of clubs. There's no flop, turn or river, although with four betting rounds, five-card stud can produce much bigger pots than say, draw poker. There's strong stench of talentlessness that reeks from every frame of El Sakka's second flop in a row. Top-seeded Carolina Kostner of Italy, the 2005 world bronze medalist, was the flop of the event in winding up seventh. Show More Sentences I don't like to throw in my hole cards and then watch them be repeated in the flop, robbing me of a full house or a mouthwatering peach of a flush. There are the own-goals, the bungling keepers, the bad haircuts, the miskicks, the expensive players who flop and the manager who sits in the wrong dugout. Let's review the strategies for the pre-flop, flop, turn and river. Luckily the gaff shot backboned the fish, so it didn't flop much. What with the kerfuffle over the unscheduled departures of hopeless flop Gemma Collins and grief-stricken Craig Charles, week one of I'm A Celeb was a wash-out. And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine. It might still flop, making early yea-sayers like me look daft. The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands. Maybe the most egregious flip flop faux pas of all was back in 2005, when members of Northwest University's championship women's lacrosse team wore them to the White House. It has been suggested that the whole project was an expensive flop. Don't feed sedums as too much growth will make them flop over. Gilbert next wrote The Mountebanks with Alfred Cellier and the flop Haste to the Wedding with George Grossmith, and Sullivan wrote Haddon Hall with Sydney Grundy. Inventor of the Fosbury flop technique used by high jumpers. The flop comes down the Jack of hearts, Jack of clubs, and 4 of spades. The proverbial fence-jumping sheep have been handed their P45s and sent to be re-skilled in the Fosbury Flop in time for the London Olympics. He won the gold medal and set a world record with the Fosbury Flop, the style used by most high-jumpers today. But Pray had friends in the Seattle bands Young Fresh Fellows, Flop and the Fastbacks. Flip Flop Flo, the Know-It-All is the story of a sweet smarty-pants who longs for shoeless summers. Flop backwards on Hewitt's tailblock and you're going home in a bodybag. Examples from Classical Literature Sim could not swim, and he began to flop about in the wildest and most unreasonable manner. I'll show you how to flop a fried egg in the pan only you have to look it doesn't come down on your head. But somehow, Mrs. Bob continued to flop the broken wing, and to elude them. At this he spread out his arms and dropped them with a flop upon his knees. And so she got into the middle of the bush, and went flop into the bottomless pit. It was a damp little hollow, and Mr. tautog could not flop out into the sea again. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. Without saying a word she took hold of the winch, and round she swung him, and Jack began to flop about inside. It was because as a manager of his financial affairs Dorothy was a flop. There was a flop in the water, and the bullfrog disappeared from sight. She looks at it once, and begins to flop her arms and take on again. The Spice Girls' 1997 stinker was the top flop for one in five film fans quizzed by MSN Movies. It was an illconceived, embarrassing flop, a substanceless facade that added almost nothing to the sport. Well, at last he could hardly flop his wings, he was so tuckered out. If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of flop? Words that rhyme with flop What is the past tense of flop? What is the plural of flop? What is the adverb for flop? What is the adjective for flop? What is the noun for flop? Translations for flop Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words floozy floozies floorwalker floor-to-ceiling floor-through floorshow flop-eared flophouse flophouses flopped flopper flopperoo 4-letter Words Starting With f fl flo