How to Use floored in a Sentence

floored

adjective
  • Chase tells mom something that left her floored.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Dominique was floored — eerily so.
    — Mirin Fader, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The wood-floored patio bar has seating for about 20.
    — Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Many of them had crossed paths with Toraya at some point over the years, and her death left them floored.
    — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The brick-floored garage is fully finished and can be used as a gathering space.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The first thing that floored fans was the inclusion of the Justice Gang.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Now that the producer who betrayed him has been fired, Bergeron can come back to his shiny-floored home.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Wiseman also made an eye-catching mirror for the terrazzo-floored powder room.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The stone-floored bathroom, with a massive tub and both indoor and outdoor showers, was a particular treat.
    — Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The elegance of the primary suite, embellished with an ornate fireplace, extends to its marble-floored, spa-like bathroom.
    — David Caraccio may 16, Sacbee.com, 16 May 2026
  • In a marble-floored lobby that smelled of churchy frankincense, a row of staff in Charlie Casely-Hayford suits greeted us like old friends.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 May 2026
  • What more might Huffman’s project have been able to convey in a sticky-floored basement full of folding chairs and old Christmas lights, with audience on all sides, able to smell the performers’ sweat?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Yet there’s a relaxed comfort to dinner in the airy concrete-floored loft, starting with the Taiwanese sausage that arrives as an early bite, wedged into homemade brioche like a tiny hot dog and plucked up between two fingers.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Most guests arrive by water taxi, entering a marble-floored lobby enveloped by original frescoes and architectural motifs that reflect the building’s 18th-century royal heritage.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The spa Up on the seventh floor, the small wellness space has a mixed sauna big enough for four (Austrians tend to dispense with modesty, so choose your moment carefully), with a relaxation space and a wooden-floored gym that seems almost too elegant to work up a sweat in.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Called One Night in Atoka, more than 38,000 fans registered in an online sweepstakes to win one of just 75 pairs of tickets to the show, a response that absolutely floored McEntire.
    — Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026

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