How to Use floppy in a Sentence

floppy

1 of 2 adjective

• This way, your wide-brim, floppy hats won't overlap once put away.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2022
• Turell now plays with a yarmulke atop his floppy blond mane, but didn’t always.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2022
• People at that time asked for bank wires to be sent and so that floppy disks could be shipped.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2021
• Others want to take an adorable paw or floppy ear and pretend to eat it.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• Prune branches that are too floppy to maintain form and height.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
• Prune branches that are too floppy to maintain form and height.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
• Prune branches that are too floppy to maintain form and height.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
• Look out for celebrities and wearers of floppy felt hats.
  — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
• Pair it with a set of wedges, sandals, or a floppy hat to finish off the look.
  — Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2022
• Some cool stuff, some terrible ideas, and a very, very floppy wiper.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 7 Jan. 2024
• Two sixth-grade boys appeared, one tall and floppy-haired, the other wiry and blond.
  — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• This one’s floppy collar drew me in, while the $25 price kept me on the page.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
• Wearing a white dress, her face is hidden beneath the brim of a floppy hat.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
• Or a floppy specimen stuffed with split peas, also known as dhal puri.
  — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The head coach was 56 and had an affinity for cigars and floppy hats.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• The fact that Anthropic can’t make a disk drive or a floppy drive is too bad.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2026
• However, sometimes floppy plants just need a plant stake or moss pole.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2025
• The teacher was a young, floppy-haired man shaped like an upside-down trapezoid.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2023
• The other, Rivet, is a wide-eyed, floppy-eared girl with blue fur.
  — Reid McCarter, Wired, 4 Sep. 2021
• Nikki is tall, pierced, and punk rock; her pink hair is shaved down the sides and forms a floppy mohawk up top.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2026
• Dogs' ears, though often cute and floppy, are prone to infection.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
• Christmas cheer came early, with wagging tails and floppy ears.
  — Ronnie Li, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
• If the stem becomes floppy, simply cut your flower and enjoy in a vase.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 15 Oct. 2021
• His floppy hair swoops back off his forehead with the same dip and curl, his eyes have the same savvy directness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• The floppy discs were sent to addresses all over the world obtained from a mailing list.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 16 May 2021
• Everyone was wearing the floppy style, from movie stars to the kid in your homeroom.
  — Kara Nesvig, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
• His shirt cuffs are overexposed from the blazer sleeve, and the point collar is too floppy.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
• It is made of supersoft, lightweight wool and has a nice shape that keeps it from looking floppy.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2025
• Carla joined her wearing a bathing suit cover-up dress, a floppy hat and her own pair of sunnies.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 11 June 2022
• Incorporate your scrunchie style with a wide brim hat in the fall or floppy straw hat in the summer at the beach.
  — Daria Smith, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2023

floppy

2 of 2 noun

• The next, the ricotta inside floppy tortellini got an extra spur from lemon zest.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• Dealers also had special floppies of their own for in-store demos and customization.
  — Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
• The first 8-inch floppies could hold up to 80 kilobytes of information.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2019
• At least 60 percent of my dreams feature airplanes shaped like my bedroom and supported by floppy, creaky iron wings.
  — Katie Heaney, The Cut, 5 July 2018
• The floppies were used to help broadcast emergency action messages issued to nuclear forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Oct. 2019
• Dark-bearded and muscular, the research ecologist sports a uniform of blue work clothes, sturdy boots and a floppy, Army-style camo hat.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
• Sony, the last floppy disk manufacturer standing, stopped making floppies in 2011.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2024
• In 1979, Belyaev noted that some of the foxes had begun to look different, developing curly tails, spotting on their coats and floppy, puppy-like ears.
  — Jason Bittel, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Another country where floppies have remained in use is Japan, largely because of a suite of regulations that required documents submitted to the government to be sent on one of a variety of antiquated storage media.
  — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 3 July 2024
• DiCaprio was so ubiquitous that the Taliban reportedly arrested barbers for giving men haircuts modeled after Jack Dawson’s floppy ’do.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023