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.
  • Onions were stored on the floor.
    — Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Isn’t this her floor, her ground?
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • They were forced to sleep on the bare floor.
    — Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • One bag of ice was found stored on the floor.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado april 10, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Reach both arms straight out on the floor in front of you.
    — Dana Santas, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Building a pier and beam floor.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • That rubber floor went down last week.
    — Tribune News Service, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Two were legs up on the dining area floor.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Lay flat on your back with your knees bent and feet on the floor.
    — Jakob Roze, Health, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Buckets of onions was stored on the floor.
    — Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Add it to your cart and call the floors handled.
    — PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Drone shows wax the floor with fireworks shows.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2026
  • There could be a restaurant on the ground floor.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • These can also be added to stacked pots on the floor.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
  • These can also be added to stacked pots on the floor.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Rangy enough to space the floor and shoot from outside.
    — ABC News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’s splinters on the floor.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This is the third time the bill has been brought to the floor and failed.
    — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Sharpe doesn’t need a big scoring night to tilt the floor.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That means kitchen floors should be spill and mess-friendly.
    — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 June 2026
  • Not just that, an entire floor was shut down for the date.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The floors were laid with black-and-white limestone tiles.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 20 June 2026
  • When a whale falls to the ocean floor, nothing goes to waste.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Once dry, buff the floor with a soft cloth to prevent streaks.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
  • All tiles should be taken from the box and laid out on the floor.
    — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The floor drain was not draining when the hand wash sink was in use.
    — Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Schumer asked on the Senate floor.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 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
  • Episode four, at the end, I was floored.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Some things still floor him about the guy who took his money.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Bend the knees if necessary to help keep your back flat to floor.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The images, some of which are printed in this book, floored her.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Would some good old-fashioned linoleum flooring help calm one down?
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • But the reason was that no one had walked in my office that just floored me.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 31 May 2019
  • The director says they were floored.
    — Alex Olgin, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Fury floored Wilder with glancing left and right shots off the back of his head.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2020
  • He was found dead on his bathroom floor the following day.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • When revenue grew to six figures in the very first month, I was floored.
    — Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • There are also peel-and-stick tiles designed for flooring.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Here are the flooring installers who made our list.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Here are the flooring installers who made our list.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • While not the most fleet of foot, Perez floored the gas pedal toward home plate.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 May 2026
  • So, the poster had their payment card out ready to pay for their bag, but was floored by what happened next.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Everyone is floored at the way this was handled and how he was treated.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • Here are the seven flooring trends the pros say are about to be everywhere.
    — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Robert Saleh’s defense is flooring the gas pedal through two games.
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • All three judges appear to be floored by Brandon’s bilingual singing skills.
    — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 10 Apr. 2018
  • They were floored to learn the allegations of what happened there.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • Once Berthia arrived and finally met the man who had saved his life, he was floored.
    — Johnny Dodd, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The snowstorms have revealed a selfishness that has floored me.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Keele rushed out to her own vehicle and floored it, her headlights piercing through the pitch black.
    — ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Rocio admits that she's been floored by the supportive tweets.
    — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Hardy was able to floor each of his opponents in the competition.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Plus risking damage to paint and flooring when the furniture is moved again at some time.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But he is still floored by the scene that unfolded that evening, unbeknownst to anyone.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020

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