Sentence examples for a dud for from inspiring English sources

("Hereafter," which also starred Mr. Damon, was a dud for Clint Eastwood).

But a 2002 effort, "Baby Looney Tunes," was a dud for the former WB network and later for the Cartoon Network.

Dr John Twidell Horninghold, Leicestershire I agree with Simon Jenkins that Hinkley is a dud, for many reasons that have been discussed in his article and elsewhere.

"What might be a miracle drug for one person could be a dud for another," said Dr. Joel Saper, director of the Michigan Headache and Neurological Institute, a treatment and research center in Ann Arbor.

The marquee matchup between the defending champion Spurs, currently second in the West, and the 2004 champion Pistons, second in the East, looked more like a dud for most of the night.

Republicans watched George Mitchell run rings around George Bush and concluded not just that they had landed a dud for a president but that the balance of power had shifted.

After World War II, Gabriel Domonkos went to an Army surplus depot in Newark and bought the casing of a dud bomb for $1.

We might have been in for a dud of a Super Bowl.

Follieri was arrested in April for writing a dud cheque for $215,000 (when the account had just $39.98 in it), and shortly afterwards New York State's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, began investigating his charitable foundation, the Follieri Foundation.

Its retail model boasts production of a t-shirt for a mere $6.50 and by cutting out a middleman, Everlane sells their discerning customer a designer dud for a decidedly non-designer price.

Best known for making garishly colourful headphones, the business looked like a dud investment for the world's biggest tech firm.