Sentence examples for this flop from inspiring English sources

When Boeing tried to distract attention from this flop by announcing a near-supersonic long-haul jet dubbed the Sonic Cruiser, it fell even flatter on its face.

"Our attitude," her husband added, "is, 'O.K., we'll drive this flop.' " Ypsilanti's Orphan Car Show (this was the seventh) is not a high-toned concours d'élégance, like the one at Pebble Beach, where perfect examples of rare million-dollar cars are featured, and men wear blue blazers and women large picture hats.

Perhaps this flop has to do with timing.

Ask yourself, "What can I learn from this flop and how can I avoid it from recurring?" Search for the solution instead of sulking and focusing on the problem.

This "flop" has scored bigger at the box office in one weekend than concert films by U2, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Neil Young, N Sync and countless others did during their entire run.

Coward later said of this flop, "My first instinct was to leave England immediately, but this seemed too craven a move, and also too gratifying to my enemies, whose numbers had by then swollen in our minds to practically the entire population of the British Isles".

In the dressing room afterwards one saw the humorous side of Cullis, lamenting that the cup was a nuisance: "You have to take it to this flopping fete and that flopping fete".

Butler knows this, and tells us so: "If all this sounds ridiculous — this flopping, this awful waddle for what could be such a simple key — that's because it is ridiculous — it's self-created, really, though of a self not specifically the self — instead it is the self in congregation, the sets of sets of strands of images, ideas.

Microsoft tries to brand it "The Gates Age," but like many of its content ventures this flops.

In November 2008 Telefonica Mobiles launched a multi-platform social network, Keteke but this flopped against the mighty Tuenti.

In this dud, Notre Dame flopped and Alabama triumphed and the SEC ruled again.