Sentence examples for flopped from inspiring English sources
'flopped' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to something that has collapsed or failed due to lack of energy or support. For example: The market for new cars flopped last year due to an increase in fuel prices.
Method: Attempts to tackle the resulting problem of soil fertility have largely flopped so far.
Despite the big money, Christian Bale and a lavishly funded public-relations campaign, The Flowers of War flopped on US release.
The film flopped and the critics were unimpressed – although both Foxx and co-star Robert Downey Jr emerged with their dignity intact.
Billing a film as "the No 1 US hit" was a classic marketing strategy; pictures that flopped at home could have their overseas budgets slashed … or be dumped.
The following morning, exhausted by our all-night hostile stalemate, my baby and I flopped on to the sofa, switched on the radio and braced ourselves for the worst.
The placenta flopped out into a serving dish and we tried passing it off as a fino side!
Even William Hague's Conservative party, who flopped in the general election, managed to beat the then ruling Labour party in 1999.
It failed to make the Oscar shortlist and flopped in the US on release, taking just over $311,000 during its limited run.
His campaign so far has flopped.
But he then flip-flopped, saying first that he saw the flag as a symbol of heritage, then that by "heritage" he had meant that of his family (who came from Mississippi, and included fighters for the Confederate side), not the Confederate states.
Barings flip-flopped between family and non-family CEOs before the bank went under in 1995.
