Example Sentences

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Trabitz nails down every laugh early on, then sneakily builds the tension to a level that will floor you.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2019

Sarah Colangelo’s psychologically complex portrait of a wounded woman obsessed with a gifted student premiered at Sundance, and it features a lead turn from Maggie Gyllenhaal that will floor you.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018

It is that bill that will floor us—at least, be the first step to it.

From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

But we will floor him in his native market-place.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George

Truly it has been said that three questions will floor the biggest philosopher.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Grimm, Baron C. de