Floor

The room has a wooden floor.

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.

Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.

The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.

The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.

After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

For years we lived on the third floor.

When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.

The floor of 4.5 is 4.

She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she never danced before

Open the door, get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur

Meet me on the floor tonight Show me how to move like the water

At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards. The next two floors were similar though not quite as spectacular and the stakes were lower.

The conference started as an impromptu session in the coffee shop this morning when waitresses walked off the floor rather than serve four Negro men and women delegates.

floor a house with pine boards

The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].

Sam floored him perpetually, and beat his face to a jelly, without getting a scratch.

our driver floored the pedal

I don't remember much about the flight from Chicago to Denver. We landed a little after eleven, and I ran through the airport, ran to my car. Floored it most of the way home.

floor an opponent

Floored or crushed by him.

We were floored by his confession.

Some of the attendees were “absolutely floored,” said an official familiar with the proceedings. That someone in the U.S. government could “make an argument that is so nakedly against transparency, in light of the unfolding catastrophe, was…shocking and disturbing.”

floor a college examination

I've floored my little-go work

floored division