Sentence examples for exactly a flop from inspiring English sources

Mediaroom wasn't exactly a flop — it powers 22 million set-top boxes in 11 million subscriber households through pay television services like AT&T U-verse — but it never achieved anything like the grand ambitions that Microsoft once set.

LOS ANGELES — In the movie business, sometimes a flop is just a flop.

"You can't always tell a flop, and no one can find out exactly how much a perfume lost, because companies consolidate their figures, although everyone whispers guesses," the perfumer said.

Assuming the freedom of a flop, Mr. Leigh and his colleagues wrote it exactly as they pleased.

A flop?

"Loco" was a flop.

Not a cascade, a flop.

HealthSmart was a flop.

It is a flop.

("Surviving Christmas" was a flop).

The show was a flop.