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Example sentences for: flunk

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Tomorrow's headlines today: Although the story may not have appeared in the Los Angeles edition of the New York Times being placed right now outside the door of your splendid suite at the Peninsula, 8,668 of the New York grade-schoolers who were informed last spring they'd flunked, and had to take remedial summer courses, did not in fact flunk.
(As it turns out, atoms don't quite work this way; but complex molecules, particularly organic compounds, often do, which is why surface proteins of a cell that function as receptor sites for harmful invaders such as viruses can be blocked with other molecules of the appropriate shape, and why, when placed in a solution of mixed sugars, some bacteria flunk the membership test for the Clean Plate Club because they can digest dextrose but leave its mirror image, levulose, untouched.)