How to Use through the floor in a Sentence

through the floor

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  • Came up through the floor and hit him square in the back.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Press through the floor with both of your feet and squeeze your glutes to stand back up.
    Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 July 2023
  • Brace your core and push through the floor to lift hips, squeezing glutes at the top.
    Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Push your feet through the floor to stand straight up, squeezing your glutes at the top.
    Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 4 May 2023
  • The bullet had ripped through the floor and lodged in the ductwork.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Push your feet through the floor and pull the weight up, keeping the bar close to your body.
    Men's Health, 11 July 2023
  • His fishing lines drop through the floor of the RV’s full kitchen.
    Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This caused a leak that drained through the floor and damaged the unit directly below ours.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Savvy car buyers check for rust by seeing if a screwdriver will punch through the floor pans.
    Chuck Wilcoxen, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The pulsing rhythm vibrates through the floor and walls up through your body and fingertips.
    Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • Press through the floor, and then return to the starting position.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Consumer confidence fell through the floor, and retail sales sank.
    Cnn Business, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Why not sip a drink and enjoy the airfield views through the floor to ceiling windwows that run the length of the lounge?
    Michele Robson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Kidd and the Mavs’ priority with Flagg is to not run him through the floor.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Push through the floor, prop yourself on one forearm, and extend your other arm upward.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Long, narrow hallways cut through the floor plan, leading to lofts, nooks and other cozy spaces.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • In the kitchen, brownish water with a pungent smell backed up through the floor drain when the handwashing sink faucet is open.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Nov. 2025
  • After the pandemic hit, people stopped moving around, and demand for ride-hail went through the floor.
    Aarian Marshall, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The vibration pulsed through the floor into my body, like a second heartbeat competing with my own.
    Sofia Perez, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Another resident emerged from a quick shower to find water seeping up through the floor.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The cars run directly beneath, sending vibrations up through the floor.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 30 Jan. 2023
  • McCarthy was expected to attempt to strike deals, even through the floor votes as necessary.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The lag bolts are of an insufficient size and may pull through the floor, causing the floor to separate from the frame of the trailer.
    Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Sometimes shafts of divine light pierce the ceiling; other times, blazing hellfire flashes up through the floor.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • From there, engage your glutes and quads along with your core, focus on drawing your ribs down, and actively press through the floor to stay stable.
    Christa Sgobba, Health, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Gerard learns from a police officer that her bed fell straight through the floor and under an open wardrobe, which shielded her from the debris.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • From Luke's crash into the stairs to Greg's falling through the floor to me stubbing my little toe on the glider.
    Julia Emmanuele, PEOPLE, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Roofroomer treats the drainage system similarly, integrating a floor drain and piped sink basin drain through the floor of the unit.
    New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025
  • As firefighters entered the building, one of them came in through a window and fell through the floor underneath him, Smith said.
    Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Essentially, dropping the main element of the rear wing causes the airflow to stall on the beam wing and also slow through the floor.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023

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