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
He pressed the button and the lift began ascending but as it neared the second floor, it lurched downwards with a thud and got stuck between the first and second floors.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024
“You won’t take me up there? Show me which floor? Just tell me the floor. I’ll figure out which apartment on the floor it is.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
