floor it
Example Sentences
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Stepping gingerly across the metal floor, it holds its four-fingered hands at chest level until it reaches its objective: a 25-pound basket of bearing components fresh from a stamping press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
In custody, at MDC, he fell to the floor; it turned out he was having a stroke.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
This scramble has resulted in the girl who always wanted to floor it in life becoming the brakes on the collective plans.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2024
After the fire began in a flat on the fourth floor, it spread rapidly up the outside of the tower block, reaching the top floor in a matter of minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
A boiled-cabbage smell hung in the air downstairs in the parlor, but up here on the third floor it wasn’t so bad.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
