How to Use floor in a Sentence

floor

1 of 2 noun

• Keep your feet on the floor.
• She lives on the second floor of a five-story building.
• His office is located on the fourth floor.
• When a whale falls to the ocean floor, nothing goes to waste.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The collapse occurred on the third floor of the structure.
  — Sophia Vento, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
• And until there is one, there won't be a bill on the House floor.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• Slowly bend over and touch the floor in front of your feet with both hands.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 15 May 2023
• The act was moved out of committee but has yet to get a vote on the floor.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• The rear seat—split on the LS—can be folded flat to form a large rear load floor.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 June 2023
• But the bigger issue, again, might have been on the other side of the floor.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2024
• On the day of the groundbreaking, Peters took to the floor of the House to urge approval of the $310 million.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Relax the foot and the knee of that leg into the floor, and lean your weight into the non-crossed leg.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 12 May 2023
• The auction was held in front of the elevator on the 27th floor.
  — Ben Wieder and, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
• But Johnson has opposed bringing the measure to the House floor for a vote.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Raw chicken and beef were planted on the walk-in freezer floor.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2024
• There is nothing to indicate that the house had four floors.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• The Warriors outscored opponents by 4.9 more points with Poole on the floor in the playoffs than with him off it.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
• Suffice to say that, in its wake, some viewers will have to be mopped up from the floor of the cinema.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• She was found on the floor of the home trying to hide from deputies, authorities said.
  — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
• In fact, both parties agreed not to even bother with a floor debate and roll-call vote.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Now there is a gaping hole in the front of the store and bits of broken glass scattered on the emptied showroom floor.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The half-second pause after every punch-in is loaded, like the creak of the floor in a horror movie.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• Working from top to bottom means debris from the top will land on a dirty floor instead of a clean one.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2023
• Amber Bourke stands on the ocean floor, facing away from a black abyss while holding her breath.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• The workers take care in rolling several of the carts into grids marked with blue tape on the concrete floor.
  — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 3 Apr. 2024
• The primary suite is found on the main floor, and there are four en-suite bedrooms on the lower level.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
• Who shat on the floor at my wedding?, a silly whodunnit that wrapped two and a half years ago, is grazing the top of the charts.
  — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 22 Dec. 2023
• His communication on the defensive end of the floor has been really good, too.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2026
• Do not lie on concrere floors or lay against concrete walls.
  — Brandi D. Addison, Des Moines Register, 6 Mar. 2026
• Spanning just over 18,000 square feet, the new lounge splits its two floors into a pair of distinct areas.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2026

floor

2 of 2 verb

• The news just floored me.
• He floored me with his first punch.
• Me, @iammarkronson, @antmundo and @wyattish are floored by this win.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Jan. 2019
• To see this on a screen in 2018 was enough to floor you.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2022
• Just keep the wheel pointed straight, floor it, and go.
  — K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 26 June 2021
• Early in the 10th, Wilder floored Ortiz with two rights and a left hook to the head.
  — Santos A. Perez, miamiherald, 4 Mar. 2018
• Fury floored Wilder with glancing left and right shots off the back of his head.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2020
• The images, some of which are printed in this book, floored her.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• In fact, that’s the most common garage flooring out there!
  — Taylor Augustin, House Beautiful, 30 June 2023
• Bend the knees if necessary to help keep your back flat to floor.
  — Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• When revenue grew to six figures in the very first month, I was floored.
  — Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
• But the reason was that no one had walked in my office that just floored me.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 31 May 2019
• The incident report states that Jones has choked, hit and thrown the woman to floor over the past month.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 Sep. 2021
• In the fourth round, Lara floored Gausha (20-1) with a left uppercut for the fight’s only knockdown.
  — Santos A. Perez, miamiherald, 15 Oct. 2017
• She was floored by the finding, which was first reported by Iowa’s News Now.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• If you aren’t already floored by his talents on the ice, surely his tweets will give you life.
  — Alexia Lafata, The Cut, 12 Feb. 2018
• Since dropping the lyric video at 12 a.m. Thursday (May 3) morning, fans have been floored by the singer's use of 3D imagery.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 3 May 2018
• Everyone is floored at the way this was handled and how he was treated.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
• Auburn was floored by the news of Person’s arrest in September 2017.
  — Sam Blum | [e-mail], al.com, 18 July 2019
• The Smyths were floored, and quickly became close with Mack, who continues to run each year for Jonathan.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• If you’re ever stuck in the snow or ice while driving, don’t try to floor your way out of the situation.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2019
• According to People, the couple were floored by the gesture.
  — Nina Braca, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018
• Hardy was able to floor each of his opponents in the competition.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
• The room will include ceiling to floor touch screens, almost like giant iPads.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2021
• The snowstorms have revealed a selfishness that has floored me.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
• The others come from flat-out surprises that will floor and astonish you.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• But Trump has already floored the accelerator and driven off the cliff.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• There are also peel-and-stick tiles designed for flooring.
  — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 27 Feb. 2026
• Its rooms would have been well lit by dormer windows of rare sash glass and floored by plank wood, which was difficult to obtain in the interior so far from the sawmills.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Both also subcontract to local flooring pros.
  — Dan Simms, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026