How To Use fall flat In A Sentence
- Irony still seems to fall flat in a culture where one-dimensional discourse is promoted from the earliest days of school on up into the professional world.
- With any book of this style, where the subject matter's broken up into bite-sized pieces, some of the sections will fall flat, and that's as much the case here as anywhere else.
- Do not be conned into thinking this smooth talker is going to do anything but increase taxes and fall flat on his face. McCain to target Obama in final primary night
- At 18 songs, this compilation runs long, and some of the latter cuts fall flat.
- She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
- The enterprise tends to fall flat without the expectation of success, but too much expectation leads the writer to block, the athlete to fumble, the unseasoned actor to gag or go blank.
- Her character has to contend with flowery, overwrought speeches full of melodrama that are meant to generate some degree of humor, but which tend to fall flat.
- The product will fall flat if it's footballed around too much.
- Now as cockal bones do not take up as much room when they fall upon one end as when they fall flat, so every one of us at the beginning sitting broadwise, and with a full face to the table, afterwards changes the figure, and turns his depth, not his breadth, to the board. Essays and Miscellanies
- Staging in the round on a sandlot is problematic; the battle scenes, though weird enough, fall flat.