Flopped is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Flopped meaning
simple past and past participle of flop
Using Flopped
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of flop
- In the example corpus, flopped often appears in combinations such as: flopped at, flopped in, it flopped.
Context around Flopped
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flopped
- In this selection, "flopped" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, flip, film, album, harder, trentside and though stand out and add context to how "flopped" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agustin creevy flopped on a and also flip flopped on paying. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flopped" sits close to words such as anthropologists, archived and awakens, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flopped
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And metformin flopped, big time. (5 words)
Can Leqembi Succeed Where Aduhelm Flopped? (6 words)
Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" flopped at first. (10 words)
Shares of Meta, which have risen nearly 150 per cent so far this year, flip-flopped in after-hours trading, initially gaining three per cent before reversing to trade three per cent below the closing price two hours later. (39 words)
His catchphrase about how the "hierarchy of the DC Universe (was) about to change" acquired a second life when the film flopped and Gunn and Saffran got hired to seemingly wipe the slate clean. (34 words)
However, when you consider the film flopped at the box office, you could be forgiven for not knowing exactly why there were snakes on a plane in the first place. (30 words)
Can Leqembi Succeed Where Aduhelm Flopped? (6 words)
He recently dropped an album, and it flopped within a week, and you guys think it’s love? (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
After living large off the success of "Parents Just Don't Understand," Will Smith himself broke when his next album flopped.
After The Marvels flopped harder than The Flash, I dont think so.
And when veteran replacement hooker Agustin Creevy flopped on a ruck, Ford booted his sixth penalty.
But, following Lyle’s lead, I folded forward, flopped on to my belly, and submerged my face and head.
Can Leqembi Succeed Where Aduhelm Flopped?
Going through all the same motions, suddenly the wheel got out of control and the wet clay flopped.
He recently dropped an album, and it flopped within a week, and you guys think it’s love?
His catchphrase about how the "hierarchy of the DC Universe (was) about to change" acquired a second life when the film flopped and Gunn and Saffran got hired to seemingly wipe the slate clean.
However, he flopped Trentside, with his only goal in 37 appearances coming in a 4-0 win at Chesterfield in September 2006.
However, when you consider the film flopped at the box office, you could be forgiven for not knowing exactly why there were snakes on a plane in the first place.
Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" flopped at first.
Mae Muller has made her first comments after she sadly flopped in Eurovision 2023.
Released in the U.S. as "The Amazing Adventure" and cut down to a lean 62 minutes, the movie was not warmly received and flopped at the box office.
Shares of Meta, which have risen nearly 150 per cent so far this year, flip-flopped in after-hours trading, initially gaining three per cent before reversing to trade three per cent below the closing price two hours later.
The movie still flopped, though, and the actor went to war with Warner Bros. before DC Studios decided not to bring him back at the DC Comics anti-hero.
The only exceptions are the sequels, The Rock’s most successful movies outside of the could’ve been Johnson’s new franchise, but it flopped amidst a DC reboot.
They also flip-flopped on paying reparations to victims, at first insisting they would only pay if ordered to by court rulings.
While the MCU's popularity is always going up, some of its films have flopped hard.
And all three have flip-flopped on the southern border.
And metformin flopped, big time.
Common combinations with flopped
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- flopped at 14×
- flopped in 11×
- it flopped 10×
- flopped and 6×
- flopped on 5×
- film flopped 4×
- have flopped 4×
- he flopped 3×
- and flopped 3×
- flopped hard 3×