45 examples of flunked in sentences

She flunked miserably and went home to her sick child.

"She flunked twice in French and was impudent to Madame," whispered Bobby, who knew all the school gossip.

He weren't no saint,them engineers Is all pretty much alike, One wife in Natchez-under-the-Hill And another one here, in Pike; A keerless man in his talk was Jim, And an awkward hand in a row, But he never flunked, and he never lied, I reckon he never knowed how.

We had it all fixed up to work and then he flunked and let us do it all.

You haven't flunked, Tom?

Flunked To-Day.~ I flunked to-day.

Flunked To-Day.~ I flunked to-day.

But now,some one could tell you why I flunked to-day.

I felt my love (for knowledge) die; And thus it was without a sigh I flunked to-day.

699 [Obs.]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].

V. fail; be unsuccessful &c adj.; not succeed &c 731; make vain efforts &c n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white &c (impossible) 471; roll the stones of Sisyphus &c (useless) 645; do by halves &c (not complete) 730; lose ground &c (recede) 282; fall short of &c 304.

He'd paid attention to the plumbing and flunked passion.

" "Some day, Eric," grinned Carroll, "I'm going to throw you downI'm going to flunk on a case.

It was a flunk, and that was all there was to it.

It would not prevent the flunk.

There was nothing to be done but flunk.

Since he was sure to flunk in his examinations, why endure the afternoon's torture, which could not but be worse than the morning's?

He had flunked in his examinations, while at that very moment, he knew, Bessie was going triumphantly home, her last examination over and done, and with credit.

But he flunked so many courses he will have to drop back a year unless he makes up the work and takes examinations in the fall.

I don't see" "Neither Tony or Larry ever flunked a college course.

" So Ted went on his way, dropped in to see Elsie, had a cup of tea and innumerable small cakes, enjoyed a foxtrot to phonograph music with the rug rolled up out of the way, conversed amicably with the Ancient History Prof himself, who wasn't such a bad sort as Profs go and had the merit of being one of the few instructors who had not flunked Ted Holiday in his course the previous year.

One afternoon, at a football game, he came up to her on the grandstand, shook hands with Jermain Fiske, whom he had flunked innumerable times in algebra, and remarked in his most acid voice that he wished to congratulate the young man on being the perfect specimen of the dolichocephalic blond whose arrival in Sylvia's life he had predicted years before.

Long ago, in his first year at college, he had flunked the examination of the professor whom he reverenced above all others.

The other is for their common talk, tells who "flunked" and was "deaded," who "fished" with the tutor, who "cut" prayers, and who was "digging" at home.

"He flunked his English exam, to-day.

45 examples of  flunked  in sentences