Then they started grappling on the floor as she tried to fend him off.
Everyone dropped to the floor, and then immediately after evacuated.
Property values went through the floor and even the Russians stopped coming.
“Nonsense,” muttered Hawberk, searching on the floor for a fallen rivet.
The border runs right down the middle of this room, too, though there is no green line on the floor.
I crossed the floor, knelt down by him, and tried to wake him.
He picked Jim's hat off the floor and patted it softly as he hung it up.
The ceiling of this strange room was now their floor, but Rawson was not deceived.
He never moved from his one position on the floor; and the hours flew by unheeded.
The floor is of hard matter, and the walls and ceilings of plaster.
Old English flor "floor, pavement, ground, bottom (of a lake, etc.)," from Proto-Germanic *floruz "floor" (cf. Middle Dutch and Dutch vloer, Old Norse flor "floor," Middle High German vluor, German Flur "field, meadow"), from PIE *plaros "flat surface" (cf. Welsh llawr "ground"), enlarged from *pele- (2) "flat, to spread" (see plane (n.1)).
Meaning "level of a house" is from 1580s. The figurative sense in legislative assemblies (as opposed to the platform) is first recorded 1774. Spanish suelo "floor" is from Latin solum "bottom, ground, soil;" German Boden is cognate with English bottom. Floor plan attested from 1867.