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 Waterloo, Stanley