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.
• Add in Glass Onion and there wasn’t a dud in the bunch.
  — Vulture, 12 Dec. 2022
• Just when the Iron Bowl looked like a dud … that happened.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 28 Nov. 2021
• Skip Season 1, which was kind of a dud; the rest of the series is a treat.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2023
• None of this should be taken to mean that the report was a dud.
  — Jazz Shaw, National Review, 26 June 2021
• The video was a dud; this culture and Chris Young’s vision are not.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• There were some boos, but fans appeared to have mostly come to terms with the dud.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• Alabama beat Ole Miss 42-21 in a dud of a shootout and the fourth-down moments.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Crystal Pepsi turned out to be a dud and was off the market by 1994.
  — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• 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
• On our visit, the Thai paella was a five-alarm dud, spicy and dull in equal measure.
  — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2022
• After the dud that was iOS 15.3, the latest beta brings tons of new feature to test.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Its two aging tennis courts, in the center of the park, were a dud, however.
  — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• In part because the original was a dud from the Duck perspective.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The dud of a game didn’t change Orlovsky’s opinion that Mayfield will have a monster season.
  — cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
• The Pavarotti film was a commercial and critical dud, so the Bergmans lucked out with that nod.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2022
• The sixth episode, an attempt to tie the series together, is a total dud.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• 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
• The last two seasons were impressive, and the two before that largely duds.
  — Terry Tang, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• At Stanford, class lectures in VR were a dud, Bailenson said.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• The 4-series Gran Coupe is a 3-series sedan in designer duds.
  — Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Army around 2017 declared a requirement for a new cluster shell with a one-percent dud rate.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• This year marks the 40th anniversary of the McRib, which was a dud on its debut but has bounced back to become a fan-favorite menu item.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 30 Sep. 2021
• Commenters on the YouTube live stream called the roughly three-hour presentation a dud.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Wildcats hope familiar scenery spurs a rebound from last week’s 31-17 dud at MSU.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 6 Nov. 2021
• Sometimes fireworks don’t go off, but duds always pose a risk.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024