How to Use face-plant in a Sentence
face-plant
noun-
Which brand will spend billions on a new model, only to face-plant?
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Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
20 Dec. 2025
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The girl takes a tentative step forward, stumbles, and face-plants into the waves.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Jan. 2026
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No one wants to fall down a flight of stairs and face-plant right at a time of the year when the good teams are gearing up for a postseason run.
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Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
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Especially as the Nuggets just performed one of the most epic face-plants in Colorado playoff history up in Minnesota.
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Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
1 May 2026
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But the potential for a face-plant remains, especially given the large percentage of shares that will be doled out to retail investors who are, by and large, big Musk fans but also tend to be twitchy.
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Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
11 June 2026
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