Sentence examples for flunk from high-quality English sources.

• They’ll flunk.

• Many moderates supporting him reckon he will flunk the vote.

• Many of these laws would flunk that test.

• He’d flunk out of school and take the Bog Girl with him to the mainland.

• Dreamers couldn’t flunk out of high school, or have D.U.I.s, or work at McDonald’s.

• Most who do end up waiting tables while they flunk auditions before calling it a day.

• Boys in the developed world are 50% more likely to flunk basic maths, reading and science entirely.

• Teenage boys in rich countries are 50% more likely than girls to flunk all three basic subjects in school: maths, reading and science.

Use flunk in a sentence.

• Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the country’s third-largest bank, was by far the most prominent lender to flunk; its shares slumped this week and it is now considering “strategic options”.

• More common are promising molecules that flunk clinical trials and so earn no return at all, or drugs that shine for a few months before being trounced by a better pill from a rival firm.

• Last year, an assistant professor of English at Brown University lost her tenure-track job after she was found to have included unattributed passages in her book; undergraduates could flunk a course, or worse.