Sentence examples for and flop in a from inspiring English sources

There is a copy of the sheet music for "The Subway Glide," a popular ragtime dance tune written in the subway's early days, whose chorus offered these instructions for performing the dance aboard a moving car: Rush in, crush in, reach for a handle strap Then turn right around and flop in a lady's lap.

If a system's reachability characteristics are incompatible with the given prediction question – if, say, "hit" and "flop" in a cultural market are both likely to be reached from the CSS – then the prediction objectives should be refined in some way.

Note that in ES predictability problems it is expected that the two sets {Xs1, Xs2} represent qualitatively different system behaviors (e.g., hit and flop in a cultural market), so that if the probabilities of reaching each from X0 × P0 are similar then system behavior is unpredictable in a sense that is meaningful for many applications.

The Winchester Mystery House "sprawls and flops in a dozen different directions, moving like a coral reef". A Monrovia hotel has to close its doors to ghost-seekers because of the "dual succubi" of money and fame.

Grew a big beard and drove round in my car and flopped in motels for a year.

Peonies flop in a good year.

When you sit, don't flop in a chair.

It's a short bike ride to the coast or just submit to a tropical torpor and flop into a hammock in the garden.

He had experienced several such falls back home and his left foot would "flop" in an odd way while walking.

Durrell blew his knee out at the end of his junior year, and then flopped in a pro league in Europe, and stopped returning Kevin's calls.

She took a net and snared a slippery creature, flopping in a pail, and said a final decision had to be made within minutes or it would die.