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Examples of fizzle in a Sentence
oozing gobs of grease, a pair of fatty burgers fizzled on the grill
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Last month, two tropical storms popped up, with Tropical Storm Bret becoming the earliest to form east of the Antilles before fizzling offshore.
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JL: Jelena Ostapenko will not fizzle out in the first round, but rather, make a run deep into the second week, silencing the doubters and the haters and the naysayers.
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Tech stocks were slammed again today, President Trump took a personal jab at MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski on Twitter, and Blue Apron’s trading debut fizzled.
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The building was purchased in 2005, but plans for its restoration fizzled during the economic recession of 2008.
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Bills to put similar allowances into law fizzled in Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas.
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Bills to put similar allowances into law fizzled in Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas.
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Vidrine and fellow rig supervisor Robert Kaluza were indicted in 2012 on manslaughter charges, but the case eventually fizzled after a judge threw out some of the manslaughter charges and prosecutors elected to drop the rest.
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Some of these companies will fizzle out, but people will learn about investing in this ecosystem and finding where the real value.
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Origin and Etymology of fizzle
perhaps alteration of fist to break wind
Examples of fizzle in a Sentence
the home team's unexpected fizzle in that last game cost them the championship
the play was a fizzle, opening and closing the same night
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Plus: What might anchor the Cleveland sports conversation this summer if the Cavs fizzle and the Indians continue to disappoint?
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Following the fizzle of his coming-of-ager Goodbye Berlin (Tschick) last year, Fatih Akin bounces back and bounces high with an edge-of-seat thriller inspired by xenophobic murders in Germany by a Neo-Nazi group.
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Soldiering On Schulz, a former European Parliament president, led the SPD to a surge in the polls after his nomination in January, only to see support fizzle in regional elections.
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The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra approached this work like a treat, and gave the music both its fizzle and its moments of dread chill.
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In 2006, the North conducted its first nuclear test, a partial fizzle.
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First Known Use of fizzle
1846
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fizzled
;fizzling
: to fail after a good start Our winning streak fizzled out.
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