How to Use take the floor in a Sentence

take the floor

idiomatic phrase
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  • In one sense, the game began when the teams took the floor for the second half.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In total, 76 countries have asked to take the floor at the meeting.
    — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Don’t let anyone who hasn’t been tapped take the floor—this isn’t an open mic night.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 17 May 2022
  • Of the 14 players who took the floor, all but one had at least one assist and nine had at least two.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2024
  • All 30 teams will take the floor in Vegas with games starting July 7.
    — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Indiana will take the floor again on Dec. 3 against Samford.
    — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Nyara Sabally waited two years to take the floor for Oregon.
    — Steve Mims, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The men's team didn’t take the floor again that spring, and the women's squad played just once more before the world sports went into months of hibernation.
    — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Porsha calms everyone down and lets Toya take the floor and explain herself.
    — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Doucet won titles in floor exercise and vault, posting the meet’s highest score to take the floor victory with 9.4 points.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Spoelstra said both players had made progress — Adebayo worked up a sweat in a pregame shooting session — but neither was healthy enough to take the floor.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In that tunnel, away from the gaze of the thousands in attendance, the athletes huddled for one final time before taking the floor.
    — Dominic Faria, Ethan Ferguson, Akshat Jain, Annabelle Del Bosque, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • Center Isaiah Jackson had seven, and everyone who took the floor grabbed at least one.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Vance took the floor after his nomination was announced to greet delegates with his wife, Usha.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 16 July 2024
  • The kind of stifling perimeter defenders who’ve stopped many dynamic guards who’ve taken the floor at the United Center.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • With so many new parts in the rotation, Xavier's defense needs to continuously improve each time the Musketeers take the floor.
    — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2020
  • This time, the whistleblower behind an unprecedented leak of documents will take the floor.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But before any more momentum can gather against Dan, his guardian angel, Deontay, takes the floor.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Milwaukee took a significant step and refused to take the floor for its first-round playoff game Aug. 26, calling for meaningful police reform.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Such cumulative standings essentially reward top programs for sustained excellence, and does nothing to help determine the greatest teams ever to take the floor.
    — Dave Skretta, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Opposition parliamentarians regularly pile up chairs, use flares, start small fires, and even physically grab microphones when their Socialist counterparts take the floor.
    — Llazar Semini, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Dec. 2023

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