Sentence examples for notable flop from inspiring English sources

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And a recent 3-D film of the "Glee" cast's concert tour was a notable flop at the box office.

There was one notable flop: "Beautiful Creatures" (Warner Brothers) took in $7.5 million in sixth place; Alcon Entertainment spent about $50 million to make it.

The weekend included one notable flop: "Killing Them Softly," a drama starring Brad Pitt and released by the Weinstein Company (with financing from the Oracle heiress Megan Ellison), arrived in seventh place, taking in about $7 million.

A notable flop was IncrEdibles Push n' Eat eggs on a stick, which various food and packaging trade magazines hailed as one of the most innovative new products of the new century.

A tryout with an orchestra, on September 15th of that year, was a notable flop, but Disney's letters and memos of the time sound like lines from popular songs: "Old Man Opportunity rapping at our door"; "Slap as big a mortgage on everything we got"; " 'Are we downhearted?' HELL NO".

Completing the top ten at the UK and US box office [takings combined] were Philomena, The Railway Man, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 and Dhoom 3. One notable flop was pop star Justin Bieber's Believe concert movie, which entered the US box office in just 14th place, despite trending worldwide on Twitter.

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McDonald's McLean Deluxe and Taco Bell's Border Lites offerings, for example, have been notable flops.

Like some cocky television phoenix, this season's best new comedy is born from one of last year's notable flops.

One of the most notable flops, called FutureGen, was a $1.7bn public-private project that began in 2003.

And Pfizer has suffered some notable flops over the last several years, including the failure of an experimental cholesterol treatment that was seen as a potential successor to Lipitor and poor sales of an inhaled insulin drug that the company eventually abandoned.

But being old fashioned, I'd generally assumed that for a star to be considered tarnished with the public, they needed to have something significant happen in their career — a drug problem or a sex scandal, a personality issue that made them persona non grata on movie sets, or just a string of notable flops — to justify the claim that America had actually turned on them.

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