floor-length

[ flawr-lengkth, -length, flohr- ]

/ ˈflɔrˌlɛŋkθ, -ˌlɛŋθ, ˈfloʊr- /

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adjective

extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.

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Origin of floor-length

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby floor-length

flooring, flooring brad, flooring saw, floor lamp, floor leader, floor-length, floor loom, floorman, floor-manage, floor manager, floor model

How to use floor-length in a sentence

To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.
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When I saw the fire in the restaurant, I ran down to the floor below, where I was trapped between flames above and below.
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Twin girls, Greta and Grace, run around the floor in circles, wearing pink playsuits with tiny pink wings attached.
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Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.
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It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
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She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
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The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
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These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.
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Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
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