fizzle out
Example Sentences
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The final act avoids sports-movie clichés, which is another way of saying that things simply fizzle out unsatisfyingly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
After a certain amount of growth, smaller dating app companies are likely to fizzle out or be sold to one of the major players, Helfstein said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024
But when those cases reach the Supreme Court, they sometimes fizzle out.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2024
They also identified the niobium junctions' supporting architecture as a big source of energy loss, causing the qubit's quantum state to fizzle out.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
“How could all our work just fizzle out in one afternoon?”
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
