fizzle

Example Sentences

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Steve Mott, an independent payments consultant said, "Fizzle was the watchword until they got the Chevron deal."

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2015

He also has appeared in his own shows, including the reality series "Father Hood," which stars his wife and children, and the comedy show "Doggy Fizzle Televizzle"—a play on his trademark construction "izzle."

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2010

Established in 1877, the outpost became known as "Fort Fizzle" because Indians fleeing from Idaho to Canada merely detoured around the fortification.

From Time Magazine Archive

One week before the impact, Nature ran an article, "The Big Fizzle Is Coming," predicting that the impact would constitute nothing more than a meteor shower.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

"Why, the mischief, Fizzle," said Dizzle, "did you say in your farewell-sermon, that it was just as well to preach to the dead buried six feet under the earth as to the people of Drowsytown?"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various