Words similar to flameouts

Example sentences for: flameouts

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

A sidebar considers child-prodigy flameouts, such as could-have-been NFL superstar Todd Marinovich and drug casualty Jennifer Capriati.
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular flameouts: Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): "The auteur theory killed all these people.