Sentence examples for dud for from inspiring English sources

It was another year, another dud for Julia Roberts, who starred in the lackluster "Mirror Mirror".

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

Last year's The Good Dinosaur was a rare dud for Pixar.

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

The show "Survivor" is a big hit with my 13-year-old son, but is a real dud for this 49-year-old.

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.

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

For the fall/winter 2010 season, that meant designer duds for derelicts.

Again, a bit last-minute... [Laughs] Surely designers are clamouring to get you into their duds for the big night?

Other slang survives for centuries, like "bones" for dice (Chaucer), "beat it" for run away (Shakespeare), "duds" for clothes, and "booze" for liquor (Dekker).

Witness, for example, the maxi-dresses on sale at GapKids or the rise of pricey designer duds for the under-6 set.