Sentence examples for for a dud from inspiring English sources

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

None of this will happen, and is merely cover to avoid saying what these politicians know to be true – that British soldiers are dying for a dud hypothetical.

Each party gets one point for a successful night, half a point for a reasonably successful night, and a zero for a dud.

Even where a clear right to redress exists, the on-line catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go to Newark or Nottingham to extract a refund for a dud purchase.One answer is for governments to co-operate more: to recognise each other's rules, as the European Union's members already do in the sale of financial services.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett Warren Buffett apologized to Berkshire Hathaway investors for a dud deal year.

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.

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

Jibril made his bones as a resistance fighter by spending seventeen years of his youth in Israeli prisons — much of that time for throwing a dud grenade at a convoy of Israeli soldiers — but his political prospects in middle age have been dashed.

After all, no one wants to hire an underperformer — or be the one to blame for vetting a dud employee.

While I was thoroughly won over by the Met's much smaller-sized Velázquez portrait of an uncertain subject (which Christiansen likes to think could be the artist's own self-portrait), "Philip" was, for me, a dud.

"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.