How to Use flunk in a Sentence

flunk

verb

• The teacher had to flunk two students.
• If I flunk, I have to take this class over again.
• If I flunk this class, I have to take it over again.
• One flunked out his first year, but still wanted to go to school.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
• By the end of the eighth grade, Ben—now out as gay—was flunking every class.
  — Longreads, 3 Feb. 2026
• Many of my peers ended up dropping out or flunking out of college.
  — Ehime Ohue, Washington Post, 6 July 2017
• When those students flunk exams or drop out, their schools are labeled as failures.
  — Ann Doss Helms and Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 13 Apr. 2018
• White adopted it after the dog flunked seeing-eye aide training.
  — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2018
• Of course, not everyone who flunks a smell test is going to have coronavirus.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Apr. 2020
• The team then flunked Williams on Wednesday, a day after this report came out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• Another quarter of those who do make it to their final year flunk their exit exams.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2018
• The coursework was intense, and the two struggled, even flunking some classes.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
• Twelve years after the changes began, 8 percent of survey-takers still flunked the schools.
  — NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
• The Raiders’ guy reportedly passed a polygraph test, the 49ers’ guy flunked a drug test.
  — Dwight Perry / Sideline Chatter, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
• One inspector flunked the convoy on Thursday, took the weekend off and came back days later.
  — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
• Baresi flunked a trial in Linate, near the city’s airport, where the academy players used to train.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 27 May 2026
• The professor threatened to flunk the class and withhold their diplomas until his error was pointed out.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 30 May 2023
• White rappers are by far the most flagrant appropriators on today's pop charts, and many of them flunk these questions.
  — Chris Richards, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
• That brings us to the three candidates who didn’t necessarily flunk, some of whom even flirted with adulthood.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
• For its misleading omissions, the Times story deserves a flunking grade.
  — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
• All this is still tenuous, but the idea is ready to pass or flunk based on what happens next in the FRB story.
  — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2019
• Dwyer would not elaborate on what was found, but confirmed Ream flunked a polygraph test and bragged to other inmates in prison about his crimes.
  — Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2018
• Dwyer said authorities talked with Ream several times and that Ream flunked a polygraph.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
• Colby Jackson, 42, had been through the academy before and flunked.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• The Orioles flunked their 3rd rounder a few years ago and gave that money to their 17th rounder, Carter Young.
  — Keith Law, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• Freshmen on the verge of flunking a core course must attend after-school study halls, and teachers send struggling students to tutors for small-group lessons.
  — Neal Morton, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• John has just flunked the bar for the second time, and his job at the DA’s office — which has a three-strike policy — is in peril.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
• Ultragenyx lost more than $1 billion in market value after its bone drug flunked late-stage clinical trials.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• The British government flunked the coronavirus challenge; even in lockdown, nobody knows how to behave.
  — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2020
• In her freshman and sophomore years Mitto flunked several classes and spent most of her time serving in-school suspensions.
  — Steven Goode, Courant Community, 14 June 2017