How to Use flunk in a Sentence

flunk

verb
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Synonyms for flunknext
  • The teacher had to flunk two students.
  • If I flunk, I have to take this class over again.
  • If I flunk this class, I have to take it over again.
  • One flunked out his first year, but still wanted to go to school.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The team then flunked Williams on Wednesday, a day after this report came out.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In 1957, half the kids who took one such test in the Long Island hamlet of Manhasset flunked.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Raiders’ guy reportedly passed a polygraph test, the 49ers’ guy flunked a drug test.
    — Dwight Perry / Sideline Chatter, The Seattle Times, 5 May 2017
  • All this is still tenuous, but the idea is ready to pass or flunk based on what happens next in the FRB story.
    — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2019
  • Dolan, an owner from the very old school of player subservience, has once again flunked modern N.B.A. civics.
    — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 1 July 2019
  • Twelve years after the changes began, 8 percent of survey-takers still flunked the schools.
    — NOLA.com, 24 May 2017
  • Many of my peers ended up dropping out or flunking out of college.
    — Ehime Ohue, Washington Post, 6 July 2017
  • And journalists would raise their game, not flunk big stories like Brexit and Mr. Trump’s rise.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • White adopted it after the dog flunked seeing-eye aide training.
    — Fox News, 1 Aug. 2018
  • One inspector flunked the convoy on Thursday, took the weekend off and came back days later.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
  • Of course, not everyone who flunks a smell test is going to have coronavirus.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Apr. 2020
  • La Cueva flunked the followup on Feb. 3 because, among other things, there were five fresh-looking rodent droppings found on the top of the shelf in the kitchen area.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The young man flunked the drug test at the NFL combine after having drug and other off-field problems at Florida.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2019
  • When those students flunk exams or drop out, their schools are labeled as failures.
    — Ann Doss Helms and Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 13 Apr. 2018
  • In tests of about 11 masks that the F.D.A. had authorized to be sold to American hospitals, seven flunked.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • Dwyer would not elaborate on what was found, but confirmed Ream flunked a polygraph test and bragged to other inmates in prison about his crimes.
    — Aleanna Siacon, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2018
  • Colby Jackson, 42, had been through the academy before and flunked.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • He was accused of harassing M.O. over two years and threatening to flunk her for not taking part in the Pledge of Allegiance.
    — Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Another quarter of those who do make it to their final year flunk their exit exams.
    — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The professor threatened to flunk the class and withhold their diplomas until his error was pointed out.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 30 May 2023
  • Freshmen on the verge of flunking a core course must attend after-school study halls, and teachers send struggling students to tutors for small-group lessons.
    — Neal Morton, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Dwyer said authorities talked with Ream several times and that Ream flunked a polygraph.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2018
  • White rappers are by far the most flagrant appropriators on today's pop charts, and many of them flunk these questions.
    — Chris Richards, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • The British government flunked the coronavirus challenge; even in lockdown, nobody knows how to behave.
    — Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Some people were suffering through DMV cattle lines and flunking crazy tests; others breezed through the whole process without leaving the comfort of their own sofas.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The Florida governor has flunked the editorial page’s litmus test issues as fast as the state banned advanced placement exams.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023

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