Sentence examples for business flop from inspiring English sources

A spectacular business flop is evoking sweet sorrow among radio astronomers.

For fashion designers, a business flop doesn't mean ending up working at Bloomie's sportswear department.

In the end, Iridium was a brilliant technological success, a business flop and a financial catastrophe with still-ongoing lawsuits.

So the gains by these two companies alone absolutely dwarf the Solyndra losses -- and, as Ehrenpreis pointed out, the fact that most of the auto companies operating in the U.S. in 1920 were bankrupt by 1935 hardly meant that the automobile was a business flop.

Launched with an unprecedented, fifty-million-dollar advertising and marketing campaign, the Edsel was one of the most spectacular business flops in history; the name has become synonymous with failure.

Since there weren't any previous Art Award winners, Pruitt had recruited Clarissa Dalrymple, the British-born curator whose fabulous outfits and business flops — she ran two galleries that went out of business — have made her a cult figure in the art world.

George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are both seen as having gotten away with everything -- drugs (booze versus pot), extracurricular sex (before marriage versus during marriage), professional failures (business flops versus never met a payroll), military exemption (safe service versus no service), easy money (sweetheart stadium deal versus cattle futures).

Today the shop is taking in $15,000 a month, but Lance's next business flopped.

Trump has publicly squabbled with Alwaleed, a powerful investor who helped him during business flops in the 1990s.

The second time was the best, because I knew that their arrival presaged the business flopping, and that the preview of coming attractions involved bromides followed by shady hires followed by wealth extraction followed by redundancies, and this time, I was going to be way ahead of the curve in getting my resume in front of different employers.

You are not obligated to pay them back if the business flops, but they will expect a high return in exchange for shouldering that risk.