floppy

A trans-Atlantic celebrity since the ’60s, Hockney cut a dandyish figure with rakish touches such as floppy bow ties, scarves, caps and pocket squares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

As Betty Boop became more popular, Natwick revised his design to swap the character’s floppy dog’s ears for bangle earrings and shrinking her nose.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

“This stretch is a common dumping ground,” she told me, eyes hidden behind sunglasses under a floppy sun hat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

With his gym clothes, cross necklace, floppy hair, and singular fixation on linking all of his efforts and successes to his faith, the 19-year-old Pittman looked like the archetype of the Southern Christian sports bro.

From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2026

He wore frameless glasses, had floppy silver hair, and a salt-and-pepper mustache that was like a miniature duster broom balanced under his nose.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Or 5.25-inch floppies, like some of the DOS versions did.

From The Verge ● Jul. 20, 2022

Microsoft, which had glad-handed Netscape and bundled everything and then some onto its Windows and Office floppies, needed an insurance protection against a Department of Justice that was to the company’s dark competitive arts.

From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2013

The other day, I found some floppies left me by a friend a decade dead – letters, poems – and realised that I no longer had a drive or a programme that could read them.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011

I still buy and use floppies for my electronic organ and some older synthesizers.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2010

If your system supports booting from a CD-ROM, you don't need any floppies.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John

Still, the scenes themselves play out floppier than you’d expect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Celery works, too — the stalks will be floppier, but can still elevate your sauces and soups.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

After multiple jumps from each pole, the squirrels were challenged with a much thinner, floppier steel beam.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 5, 2021

Ms. Isenberg said the Japanese began making floppier toys in the 1970s and 1980s, and Korean manufacturers stepped in with soft-fabric production in the 1980s.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2020

She grew more unwieldy and larger and floppier, a misfortune she attributed to some mysterious malady which she never named, but gloated over with the pride the poor have in their diseases.

From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

It’s a middle-of-the-spectrum, Goldilocks option — not the firmest or the floppiest, neither the silkiest nor the craggiest, but it will slide comfortably on the boards, which have been playing on the slow side.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022

While NBC gives precious little airtime to the phenomenon, limiting us to brief post-race glimpses, I've compiled Rio de Janeiro’s floppiest jowls into a non-stop, minute-long flop-fest: all jowls, all the time.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2016

"They said you were the floppiest flopper they ever saw," I told him.

From Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)