Sentence examples for flunked at from inspiring English sources

But to say that because Hernandez flunked at least one drug test while in college at Florida the Patriots could have in any way guessed or predicted that he would be accused of murder while on their roster is beyond any logic.

Half of the 2000 students would have to be flunked at the end of the first year.

The test of making language sound true to period is one even the best writers flunk at some point; anachronism is the sleeping monster of the historical novel.

He nearly flunked out at first, but as his English improved so did his grades, and by graduation he had won a scholarship to the University of Connecticut.

Will Svitek replaced Baker, who briefly moved inside to replace the penalty-prone Joe Hawley at right guard before flunking out at that position.

One reason is that Mr Rajoy flunked hard choices at the outset, notably the cleansing of the banks.

One excelled at Harvard University, simultaneously earning law and business degrees and swiftly climbing the corporate ladder; the other, his hope of becoming a veterinarian dashed when he flunked organic chemistry at Texas A&M University, joined the Air Force.

Mr. Mock, who boasted in an interview this week that he had flunked criminal law at Texas Southern University's Thurgood Marshall School of Law, called no witnesses during the guilt phase of Mr. Graham's trial, which lasted two days.

Hence, it would be better for me to withdraw from the university and go home at the beginning of the semester rather than be embarrassed by flunking out at the end of the semester.

"Harry, you know we don't flunk anybody at that late stage," Mr. Friedman told him.

Encouraged, in the age of Sputnik, to pursue the sciences, Mr. Leventhal went to Cornell, flunking out at the end of his first year.