Definition of DUDS

Examples of dud in a Sentence

Noun The seeds must have been duds because the plants never grew. She put on her new duds for the party.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun If the tau Herculid shower turns out to be a dud, fear not, there are several other opportunities to witness meteor showers this year. — Katie Hunt, CNN, 30 May 2022 Disney is paying the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a reported $1 billion for the rights from a deal that was signed in 2010 and by 2015 was already looking like a dud. — Lisette Voytko, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2022 Fourth-round draw is a dud Because the U.S. Open Cup uses four-team pods for its draws, Phoenix’s three potential opponents were Seattle Sounders, San Jose Earthquakes, and the Sacramento Republic. — Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic, 21 Apr. 2022 Auburn’s coach hated how this historic season of basketball ended not with a championship or a Final Four run, but with a dud. — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 23 Mar. 2022 There were some boos, but fans appeared to have mostly come to terms with the dud. — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2021 Labor Market Friday's dud of a jobs report carried an unsettling warning: don't pay any heed to the headline number of 3.9% unemployment. — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2022 Limitless possibility can result in a very confusing design and production process and potentially a dud of a final timepiece. — Mark Cho, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2021 The dud of a game didn’t change Orlovsky’s opinion that Mayfield will have a monster season. — cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021 See More

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