were fizzling
- past progressive of fizzle.
Example Sentences
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But he couldn’t help noticing that the efforts to initiate strikes were fizzling out.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Regardless of who’s telling the truth, it already seemed clear from Snap’s first two earnings reports that Spectacles were fizzling.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2017
They benefited from being in the right place at the right time, coming into their own while the dominant trends of the late 90s were fizzling out.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2011
But the public reaction was a far cry from the humiliation and bafflement Americans felt four years ago, when their first feeble efforts to match Sputnik I were fizzling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hargrove grabbed a slush bucket and proceeded to pour water into the limber chest with the smashed top, where fuses were fizzling and friction primers crackling in the tray above the loaded cartridges thereon.
From A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by Maxwell, James Robert
