take the floor

Example Sentences

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As the Wizards head into the All-Star break, Sheppard is right that Beal, Kuzma and Porzingis haven’t been able to consistently take the floor together.

From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2023

While he was rehabbing, he wondered whether he would ever take the floor with Durant and Irving in Brooklyn.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Their athletic director will then take the floor before BYU volleyball’s next home game, with a microphone in his right hand and small piece of blue paper in his left.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2022

After losing that moment once, it has taken a bit for reality to set in: This time, I.U.P.U.I. is actually going to take the floor.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Why so savagely sarcastic, That we will not "take the floor" And account the "light fantastic" An unmitigated bore?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 by Various