How to Use fizzle in a Sentence

fizzle

1 of 2 verb
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Synonyms for fizzlenext
  • And, unlike in 2015, the virus did not fizzle out over the summer.
    — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Since the dawn of dinner, food fads have formed, and fizzled.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The trend lasted a few months, and had fizzled out within a year.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • By the end of December, the whole thing appeared to fizzle out.
    — Whitney Perry, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2022
  • If could fizzle out at any time and go from faint to bright and back to faint in a matter of hours.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The channel fizzled in 2021 and was removed from YouTube.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2023
  • So a lot of this talk has fizzled down, but last year Facebook changed its same to Meta.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 May 2023
  • But its days are numbered, and the system is on track to slowly fizzle out by the middle of the week.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The plan fizzled and Democrats regained control of Congress the next year.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • But as the meeting went on, the hope of the Pac-12 signing the deal and staying together fizzled.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • My question is: What will Jolie’s style look like next year, when the stealth wealth fad fizzles out?
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The quarantine was lifted, the protests fizzled out, and people went back to work.
    — Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The song debuted at No. 35 on Billboard’s Hot country songs chart and fizzled out of the Top 50.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Now, the almond boom has fizzled and the industry has entered a slump.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The guys of Montez think duranguense fizzled out because too many bands tried to tap into the style at once.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Although mosasaurs did not survive past the K-Pg event, their story has not fizzled out.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The movement was at high risk of fizzling out, but Green and his swarm of fans, called nerdfighters, have given it new life.
    — Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The plot worked for a while, then fizzled at the end, in a season that really could have used one element that stuck the landing.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Hollywood blockbusters that launch with a blast often fizzle when the hype wears off.
    — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Even the most recent market surge may be poised to fizzle out sooner rather than later.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • In a 2006 interview with EW, Miller revealed that his would-be big breaks fizzled rather than sizzled.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Unlike fashion, these trends likely won’t fizzle out in a couple of years.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The result is rallies that put thousands or millions in the street overnight — but often fizzle just as quickly.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • As Richard Brody has discussed, the kinds of films that usually thrive at Oscar time have fizzled at the box office lately.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Comets can suddenly brighten in an outburst, fall to pieces or just fizzle out.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • But who could foresee that Belichick would fizzle post-Brady, going 29-39 with no playoff wins in the four seasons since?
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some of that cold air is still hanging over Northern California, even as the storm fizzles.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But after launching to such promise, his campaign all but fizzled out by year’s end.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Another is that many managers show hot hands from time to time, yet this momentum tends to fizzle.
    — The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Some experts believed that the debate over whether embryos are morally equal to people had fizzled long ago.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
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fizzle

2 of 2 noun
  • The salon, once bustling with clients in the 1980s, has seen business fizzle through the years.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Some of these fizzle on our doorstep, some come through with a sound and fury.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
  • The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Bryan Harsin’s first season at Auburn ended not with a bang, but with a fizzle.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 12 Jan. 2022
  • More than 25 years later, Lips has felt much of that early spark of hope fizzle and flame out.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Why did earlier efforts to make a movie of the novel fizzle out?
    — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2012
  • If Allen was more fizzle than sizzle Saturday, the Hawkeyes were more steak than break.
    — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 2 Sep. 2017
  • But besides rolling to first-half point totals of 85 and 73 points, though, the season restart has been more fizzle than sizzle.
    — Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The lounge offers 15 signature cocktails, many of which fizzle, smoke and flame.
    — oregonlive, 22 May 2021
  • False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, with a big pop and a lingering, smoky fizzle.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Browns have been a complete fizzle, and OSU sadly lost that close game, but the calves are what people are talking about, so it’s been amazing.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2023
  • An instant flash of talent, followed by a fizzle that left the baseball world scratching its head.
    — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The big takeaway from the Netflix fizzle is that maybe, just maybe, streaming isn’t all that special a business after all.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2022
  • Instead of a raucous send-off, our season went out with an anxious fizzle.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2020
  • When Sergio’s reunion with Noa fizzles, Sergio and Ana are left alone in his apartment.
    — USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • How does something this big fizzle away with no concrete action?
    — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The Reds had a rally fizzle in the first inning, but that was of much less importance after Marlins starter Daniel Castano was hit by a line drive in the head.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 28 July 2022
  • Its first was something of a fizzle, with an explosion that was only about 1 kiloton.
    — Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • No one knows if this will turn into a Hollywood story or fizzle under the crush of the long, draining road required to survive and thrive.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 June 2018
  • The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra approached this work like a treat, and gave the music both its fizzle and its moments of dread chill.
    — By Phillip Larrimore, charlotteobserver, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Hopkins wasn’t even present to accept his statuette, resulting in a fizzle rather than a big finale.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • In 2006, the North conducted its first nuclear test, a partial fizzle.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2016
  • The hiring fizzle comes as Trump has faced off in trade negotiations with some of the country’s largest trading partners.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • And then, yes, many times that inevitable fizzle of disappointment.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The third episode picks up dramatically with a visit to Russia, complete with mind games and veiled threats, but then the final episode is a complete fizzle.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The Oilers use last season’s playoff fizzle to motivate a surge to the first McDavid-era Cup appearance.
    — Sam Carchidi, Philly.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The day started well, went terribly in the middle and ended with a fizzle, the 22-year-old left-hander riding the full range of emotions during his first outing on a big-league mound.
    — Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Yet that might risk generating only a small pop, or even a fizzle, for customers of its retail platform.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 28 July 2021
  • Yet as a comment on the ultra-rational vs. the supernatural, the film fizzles.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Typically, when a CEO’s big bet project fizzles, workers just go to another role at the company, and the business absorbs the bad idea.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2023

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