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.
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Add in Glass Onion and there wasn’t a dud in the bunch.
—Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
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Just when the Iron Bowl looked like a dud … that happened.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 28 Nov. 2021
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Skip Season 1, which was kind of a dud; the rest of the series is a treat.
—Kturnqui, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
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None of this should be taken to mean that the report was a dud.
—Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
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The video was a dud; this culture and Chris Young’s vision are not.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
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There were some boos, but fans appeared to have mostly come to terms with the dud.
—Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2021
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Alabama beat Ole Miss 42-21 in a dud of a shootout and the fourth-down moments.
—Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2021
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Instead, Aaron Rodgers' last game was a dud, a 20-16 loss that kept the Packers home for the winter.
—Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
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Crystal Pepsi turned out to be a dud and was off the market by 1994.
—Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
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Then came the news that Ja’Marr Chase would miss some time with a hip injury, and then came the offensive dud against the Browns.
—Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
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On our visit, the Thai paella was a five-alarm dud, spicy and dull in equal measure.
—oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
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After the dud that was iOS 15.3, the latest beta brings tons of new feature to test.
—Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
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Its two aging tennis courts, in the center of the park, were a dud, however.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
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In part because the original was a dud from the Duck perspective.
—John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
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The mix-up wasn’t cataclysmic, but stalwarts who had stuck with the show clicked off the TV feeling the evening wasn’t a complete dud.
—Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
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That nest was a dud — the eggs weren’t buried deep enough and some were broken — but over the next several days the keepers found more nests.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2022
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The dud of a game didn’t change Orlovsky’s opinion that Mayfield will have a monster season.
—cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
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The Pavarotti film was a commercial and critical dud, so the Bergmans lucked out with that nod.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2022
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The sixth episode, an attempt to tie the series together, is a total dud.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
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The Packers’ 17-0 win over the Seahawks was a dud because of two quarterbacks who came back too soon.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
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The last two seasons were impressive, and the two before that largely duds.
—Terry Tang, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
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At Stanford, class lectures in VR were a dud, Bailenson said.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
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The 4-series Gran Coupe is a 3-series sedan in designer duds.
—Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
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Is Sacramento's downtown rebound a dud?
—Steve Large, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
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That Dokoupil’s debut was a dud right out of the gate is a tad surprising.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
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In that regard, then, the regular season finale became a bit of a dud.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
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In a weekend of wild-card thrillers, the Chargers delivered a dud.
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
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Detroit brought Billups back for the final year of his career and eventually retired his jersey, but the trade was a dud.
—The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
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