The word "floored" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to mean completely astonished, stunned, or shocked by something. For example: "I was completely floored when I heard the news that I had won the lottery."
Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shaherkani has achieved only a blue belt in judo and it was probably thanks solely to sportsmanlike politesse that she was allowed to stay on her feet for 82 seconds before being floored by her opponent in the women's 78kg contest.
She's here because one morning, crossing the road outside Brixton tube station, a cyclist jumped a red and floored her.
They were not made for them in 2006 when Australia floored them.
Mitchell floored the champion in the fifth round but took some heavy punches either side of that and, by the 10th, was battered, bloodied and with his left eye practically closed shut from severe swelling.
Twice floored in the opening round, Algieri showed grit in boxing his way to a split-decision win.
McLean floored Brendon Goddard with a crunching block on the members' wing just before half-time.
Mr Sarkozy may have hobnobbed with world leaders, and earned big money from lecture tours in the Gulf but he loves nothing better than playing the role of outsider, sneered at in the parquet-floored salons of Paris.
His foes are suitably villainous: a crooked official with a marble-floored mansion, in league, naturally, with a fleshy European arms dealer.All great fun, but whizz-bang special effects cost money, which African film-makers tend to lack.
LAST December, in a canvas tent erected on a building site in rural east Mississippi, Haley Barbour worked the dirt-floored space as deftly as Sonny Rollins on a saxophone.
Some bitches freeze to death; others spend their whole lives on wire-floored cages, unable to walk on solid ground.
Life for its 2,500 people, four-fifths of them Roma, is just as tough.Mihai Sanda and his family, 37 of them, live in half-a-dozen self-built, mud-floored huts.
