How To Use Fall flat In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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At 18 songs, this compilation runs long, and some of the latter cuts fall flat.
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She lets one pithy epigram after the next fall flat, sadly clouding the brilliance of this real gem of a play.
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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.
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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.
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The product will fall flat if it's footballed around too much.
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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
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Staging in the round on a sandlot is problematic; the battle scenes, though weird enough, fall flat.
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The snaps between characters fall flat, and all other attempts at comedy simply wither and die.
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She jumped off the swing to stand before him, but she misjudged her footing and tripped over her long skirts to fall flat on her face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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Articulation is critical the pianist must observe and execute staccato notes and slurs with real style, or the piece will fall flat.
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Who will triumph in teetering stilettos and who will fall flat on her fake-tanned bake?
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A whole whack of puns, one-liners and double entendres get crammed into the 90-minute running time, and most of them fall flatter than a postage stamp.
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In both those cases, the sfx fall flat, though they usually work with the monster.
Howard Hughes and the Hole in the Ceiling
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A book that's not bad in context that would fall flat presented in modern terms.
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You almost got the impression at the beginning of last season that many observers, including uninformed and uncharitable journalists, would have been happy to see the expanding channel fall flat on its face.
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Because if you don't a fresh ambition or optimistic plan will fall flat on its face.
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They may fall flat on their faces; the whole thing could go belly up, go bankrupt, catch on fire.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers.
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They may fall flat on their faces; the whole thing could go belly up, go bankrupt, catch on fire.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
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One of football's bubbliest characters will need all his effervescence for the meeting not to fall flat.
Peter Ridsdale faces big test of his suitability to take over Plymouth
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I knew it would fall flat; but it wasn't the bad script which made the film unsuccessful.
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Whatever the reason, his public persona seems guarded and calculating and his repeated protestations of humility usually fall flat.
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Luckily, sentiments like these fall flat when gravelized through the vocoder anyway.
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Some jokes fall flat, shifting the harmonic balance from whimsy to awkward.
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The impact caused me to trip over my two feet and fall flat on my stomach, dropping Gabriella.
