Sentence examples for a flop that from inspiring English sources

"Intuitively I liked the contradiction: a flop that could be a success," he told me.

It was alliterative, it was descriptive, and I liked the contradiction - a flop that could be a success.

It was their 29th loss in 40 games, dating to last September's collapse, a flop that rivaled any from the franchise's colorful past.

The incestuousness even extends to Monroe's story: There has already been a Broadway musical about her life (a flop that ran seven weeks in 1983).

St . Louisgained just 247 yards in a flop that looked alarmingly like its 38-3 loss against Philadelphia in last year's opener.

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice," a flop that will likely result in a write-down at Walt Disney Studios, was fourth in its second weekend with $9.7 million $42.6 millionn total).

But "Last Action Hero," 1992, was a costly flop that began a career slide for Mr. Schwarzenegger.

"Tiefland" — a sappy flop that tells the story of a Spanish village oppressed by its cruel lord — was the production she turned to.

Where's Charley? at the Palace, London, in 1958 went down quite well, but The Roar of the Greasepaint – the Smell of the Crowd was a tremendous flop that never reached London after a Manchester tryout in 1963.

It was a commercial flop that failed brilliantly on many other levels.

My one dive off the 5m board at Luton's Wardown Park swimming pool ended with a belly flop that could have been heard all the way to Watford.