FLOOR in a Sentence

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For FLOOR, below is one of 360 sentences:
Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.

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 Meanings and Examples of FLOOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
floor
 n.  the flat surface of a room on which you walk
 n.  a level of a building, a story
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The floor was thronged with girls and young men.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
4  On the floor beside her stood his old valise and a bandbox wrapped in newspapers.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
5  The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
6  Having satisfied himself that there was no risk of immediate discovery he went back to the kitchen with a lighter step, and found Mattie disconsolately removing the last scraps of pickle from the floor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  Then she recrossed the floor and lifted two of the geranium pots in her arms, moving them away from the cold window.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
8  He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
9  When warmth began to radiate from the stove, and the first ray of sunlight lay on the kitchen floor, Ethan's dark thoughts melted in the mellower air.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  In the middle of the floor stood her trunk, and on the trunk she sat in her Sunday dress, her back turned to the door and her face in her hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Ellen arranged her skirts and sank to the floor on her knees, laying the open prayer book on the table before her and clasping her hands upon it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Discarded garments lay about her on the floor, the bed, the chairs, in bright heaps of color and straying ribbons.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  She looked across the floor and tapped her foot to the music and her green eyes blazed so eagerly that they fairly snapped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
16  A worker mopped the floor this morning.
17  A board creaked as I crossed the floor.
18  The body was lying on the kitchen floor.
19  They were on the upper floor of the building.
20  The cell contained an iron bedframe bolted to the floor.
21  She was found prostrate on the floor of the cell.
22  The prisoner paced the floor of his cell.
23  A man lay fettered on the floor of the prison cell.
24  They had to check the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the plane.
25  The permanent collection is displayed on the first floor, whilst the ground floor houses temporary exhibitions.
26  There was a collection of books and shoes on the floor.
27  The latest Japanese vacuum cleaners contain sensors that detect the amount of dust and type of floor.
28  He has dug up the tiles that cover the floor and left them in a heap.
29  Hess then proceeded to describe the ocean floor as if it were a collection of giant conveyor belts.
30  The floor was overlaid with rugs of oriental design.