Example sentences for: dud

How can you use “dud” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although Banderas directs "capably enough" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ), the plot is a dud.

  • Eric Partridge suggests that it is coined from dud an `article of clothing' altered to incorporate attitude with reference to the dude's self-conscious manner or pose.

  • And if I think that the ending is a major dud and DON'T say so in print, then as a critic I've been derelict in my duties--especially if said (undescribed) ending left an otherwise friendly audience pissed off.

  • But Boorman, pickled since youth in Arthurian legends, has become nearly unemployable thanks to the mythic resonances in such epic turkeys as Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Where the Heart Is (1990), and the worthy dud Beyond Rangoon (1995).

  • Tell her what on the fall preview lists about to inundate us you've actually read, or seen, or worked on the set of, or worn, or gotten some serious inside dope on, and know for a fact to be a complete and utter dud.


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