flunk
verb (used without object)
to fail in a course or examination.
are flunking
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present progressiveof flunk.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Others acquit the basic science, but say our clinical trials—the human tests—are run so poorly that good drugs, safe and effective ones, are flunking out.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2011
These aren't the Harvards and Dartmouths that our kids are flunking out of.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though some emission levels have declined in recent years, four metro areas are flunking EPA clean-air standards.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I wish it was helping their grades, though. Half my seventh graders are flunking this semester.”
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
I'm afraid that we are flunking a little.
From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo
