Sentence examples for floppy from inspiring English sources

The word 'floppy' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as an adjective to describe something that is soft, flexible, and easily bent or folded, such as a floppy disk or a floppy hat. It can also be used as a noun to refer to a floppy disk or a floppy-eared animal. Example: "She handed me a floppy disk containing all of her photos from the trip." In this sentence, 'floppy' is used as an adjective to describe the disk and convey its pliability and fragility.

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floppy

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A floppy disk

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"The system ran on obsolete floppy discs and staff had to recycle old computers to keep the system running".

It comes down to hair and accent, really: the first is now less floppy, the second is missing about 50% of the Ts.

But he also succeeds in making a complicated subject compelling, and if you want to know how to insert drama into dusty old economics, imagine Peston on a busy Parisian street at dusk, sweeping into shot like Bernard Henri-Levy in a flowing coat and floppy scarf, pronouncing the phrase "SAVAGE COLOSSAL AUSTERITY" to the camera.

Dressed in the season’s crisp grey suit and black wool polo-neck, with floppy centre-parted hair, he looks like a refugee from Boyzone, sleek and notably handsome.

Thanks to the current 70s trend, fashion is on the cusp of another boho moment – a word that hasn't been used much since Sienna Miller made floppy hats, fringing and cowboy boots the uniform for young women nationwide around 2004.

Now he is notably thinner, dashingly dressed (today in a flatteringly slim blue suit, black coat with a flash of burgundy lining and bright turquoise striped socks) and with the kind of floppy fringe that used to get you sent to detention.

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I am fed up with complacency and cronyism, and I'm fed up with the floppy-haired Eton club Richard Desmond The newspaper publisher is the owner of the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and OK! magazine, as well as Television X and the Red Hot adult channels, although he strongly rejects descriptions of himself as a pornography baron.

Handing over the money at the offices of the Northern & Shell group, Desmond said: "I am fed up with complacency and cronyism, and I'm fed up with the floppy-haired Eton club.

"I never did what they wanted me to do," added the floppy-haired former wunderkind, now 41, who was jokingly introduced by his press officer as "Liszt reborn".

Now Boris Johnson, the floppy-haired mayor of London, has joined the campaign.

He has not yet transformed public services as he promised, but has proved that Labour can govern, without wrecking the economy.This makes things hard for Mr Hague, a man burdened by his own precocity ever since making a Churchillian speech, as a floppy-haired 16-year-old, at the Tories' 1977 conference.

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