Example Sentences

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Maybe he will flame out in the next round.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2020

“We believe that by selling sizzle, your customer is buying sizzle, and that by definition will flame out,” Segal said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2019

Or else Price will flame out again, and Cora will figure out another way to get through the rest of the game.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018

Many scold that the idea will flame out the same way it did when the Clinton administration pondered and then dropped a big relocation initiative, and the Reagan administration did the same before it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2017

It will flame up and burn in disengaging a gas of a peculiar odor, which is called sulphuric acid.

From In Search of a Son by Walsh, William Shepard