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US
/ˈfɪzəɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈɪzəl/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪzəl/ ]
NOUN
-
a complete failure
the play was a dismal flop -
a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience
VERB
-
end weakly
The music just petered out--there was no proper ending
How To Use fizzle In A Sentence
- The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out.
- But these movements all fizzled out, for two reasons.
- I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
- After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.
- The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street.
- But the excitement quickly fizzled out. Times, Sunday Times
- A fizzle sounded, and everybody turned their heads.
- But his career fizzled out in the UK in the 1990s. The Sun
- The relationship finally fizzled out when he met the younger woman who would become his second wife. Times, Sunday Times
- Interest in the project fizzled after the funding was withdrawn.
