floored
Example Sentences
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“The pilot floored it. He made a power takeoff, and we got out of there.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
He has never quite looked the same since his trilogy with Fury - a brutal rivalry in which he was floored five times and stopped twice.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
It sprinted off a double bottom near the $50 mark in April 2025, the level where it had floored out in March 2020, near the Covid-era lows.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
Why, it wasn’t so long ago that Brewer floored everybody else on the women’s soccer team when each player shared how old they were when the pandemic hit.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
Ifemelu, floored by Aunty Uju’s words, could only say, “Oh, okay,” and nothing else.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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