take the floor

VERB
  1. rise in order to make a speech or motion
  2. stand up to dance
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How To Use take the floor In A Sentence

  • The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
  • My parents were first to take the floorthe dance to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.
  • My parents were first to take the floorthe dance to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.
  • At the Lima meeting, the intense, weather-beaten faces of stocky Andean men light up as they passionately take the floor, one after another, on behalf of their communities' concerns.
  • Rye, you shall be our chairman, Hat, you shall be our stoolie, and I as usual shall take the floor. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • Next, the chairman asked the treasurer, Ms. Jones, to take the floor.
  • If you have to take the floorboards up, take the opportunity to lag any pipes at the same time.
  • I now invite the President to take the floor.
  • If people want to filibuster so they can debate, then my expectation is they should take the floor, I should tune-in C-Span, and I can hear what their gripe is. Think Progress » Bayh: ‘I Think The Filibuster Absolutely Needs To Be Changed’
  • Originally do, you devil at the rate of FS back fast, just to take the floor.
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