Sentence examples similar to flunking at from inspiring English sources

Bags that flunk at that stage will be carted off by explosive demolition experts.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

IN previous autobiographical solo shows, Josh Kornbluth expressed anxieties about growing up with Communist parents ("Red Diaper Baby") and flunking calculus at Princeton University ("The Mathematics of Change").

Churchill's speeches were packed with meat; flunking Latin at school, he got into his bones the essential structure of the ordinary English sentence.

His wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) is a beautiful woman, though hardened and careworn by money worries, and by a family tragedy yet to be disclosed to the audience; his son Ismail (Rifat Sungar) is a young man in his early 20s who is worrying his parents by flunking out at college and getting in with a rough crowd.

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