How to Use dud in a Sentence

dud

noun

• She put on her new duds for the party.
• The seeds must have been duds because the plants never grew.
• Thus far, it’s been a sales dud.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
• Yet, there’s not a dud in the mix.
  — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025
• But there are no true duds in the bunch.
  — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• Lemieux’s time with the Stars was a dud.
  — Mac Engel may 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
• Such events often lead to a dud.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
• There’s not one dud among them — three kids and six grandkids.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• Saturday night is kind of a dud.
  — Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• None of this should be taken to mean that the report was a dud.
  — Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
• There were some boos, but fans appeared to have mostly come to terms with the dud.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• The Devers deal has been a dud — for both sides.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• More troubling, the delta between a smash and a dud has never been wider.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 May 2026
• Gordon’s final start of the season was a dud.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
• Sometimes fireworks don’t go off, but duds always pose a risk.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 4 July 2023
• Sometimes things are too good to be true or simply don't work, but there are nuggets of gold among the duds.
  — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 26 Jan. 2026
• Skip Season 1, which was kind of a dud; the rest of the series is a treat.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
• Most of the other acts featured students dressed up in costumes or snazzy duds.
  — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
• The video was a dud; this culture and Chris Young’s vision are not.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Putting out a dud track isn’t going to ruin anything; every great artist does it.
  — Orlando Higginbottom, Billboard, 14 Sep. 2022
• As a result, some teams go viral with their videos, while others are labeled as duds.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• On our visit, the Thai paella was a five-alarm dud, spicy and dull in equal measure.
  — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• Here were the studs and duds of a vintage 49ers performance.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
• But Saturday was a New Year dud.
  — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2026
• Another dud from Tunisia could mean the wrong kind of history for the team.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026
• The sixth episode, an attempt to tie the series together, is a total dud.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• Its two aging tennis courts, in the center of the park, were a dud, however.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• To close the books on the wild card series, here are four studs and two duds from the Reds-Dodgers clash.
  — Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• That Dokoupil’s debut was a dud right out of the gate is a tad surprising.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
• The special teams have been great most of the season but were a dud against the Canadiens.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025