How to Use flameout in a Sentence

flameout

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• Fans were disappointed by the team's flameout in the play-offs.
• Harrison was out the league by 2008 and lays much of the blame for his flameout on O'Brien.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Nov. 2020
• And, because, let’s face it, the teams here had so many dry stretches and big-game flameouts.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• During the flameout of the clean tech boom in the early 2000s, plenty of investors got burned.
  — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• In the history of life, there have been many flameouts and setbacks.
  — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2019
• Last season, Arden Key, a third-round flameout who had been waived by the Raiders, had a career-high 6.5 sacks and cashed in with the Jaguars.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
• There were plenty of excuses for the first-round flameouts.
  — Chris Mannix, SI.com, 12 July 2019
• After the 2016 flameout most thought all the Giants needed was a closer.
  — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• Perhaps the biggest and most recent flameout in the space was Project Ara from Motorola, which at the time was owned by Google.
  — Dwight Silverman, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• From the embers of that flameout, some of the world’s most powerful companies were born.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2019
• The Rockets' second-round flameout has sparked a coaching change.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2020
• Restarting an engine from a flameout is known as a relight.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• But those two flameouts put him out of business, and left several agencies with holes in their books.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2019
• Hayden Hurst has gone from a baseball flameout to a potential first-round NFL pick.
  — Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• McNown's flameout — from first-round pick to curbside trash — came much quicker.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2017
• Doc Rivers has had a decades-long career, but Kerr — and his four championship rings — is the clear standout in a group of mostly flameouts or short stints.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
• Yet to anoint it a contender for the pop flameout of the year and move on ignores the nagging trends that merged to form this Infinity Gauntlet of missteps.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• Kyrie Irving is no longer with the Celtics, but his brief flameout in Boston is still on the minds of fans in the city and even, apparently, players who have yet to play a minute for the team.
  — Jimmy Golen, courant.com, 17 July 2019
• Fowler also slipped with a bogey, the beginning of a flameout for a player who on Thursday shot a 62, a single-round record for an Open.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• This late September flameout continues what’s been a long and slippery slide for the Cubs since winning it all.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Americans are inured to the personnel drama in the White House—the factions and flameouts and new blood and walking wounded.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• The official end of Rubius marks one of biotech’s highest-profile flameouts.
  — Adam Feuerstein Reprints, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023
• Like every other great coach, he’s had his share of surprising flameouts.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• Big money, famous players and the flameout of a rising tech star will all intersect in the proceedings.
  — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2021
• In an unprecedented flameout, the Canadian men’s and women’s curling teams were shut out of medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Democrats had a famous flameout with software called Houdini in 2008.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2020
• The latest: Awaiting the fallout from the Raptors’ latest flameout against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2018
• The kick in the pants provided by NOS’s unwieldy sugar content hits the same way, with very little substance on the back end to prevent total flameout on the shoulder of the highway of life.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• After his flameout in the 90s, virtually no major bank or Wall Street investment bank would lend to him again.
  — vanityfair.com, 2 Mar. 2017
• And a quick postseason flameout coming right before Siakam bolts in free agency would make this trade look like a disaster.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024

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flame out

2 of 2 verb

• The 2023 Browns can’t afford to flame out like Manziel and Farmer.
  — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
• Those Orioles flamed out and fell flat in the playoffs.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
• Is Phoenix ready to take a big step forward after an 8-0 run in the bubble, or will the Suns flame out?
  — Michael Rand, Star Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• Rappers flame out as if gunned down in one of their own cop-killer fantasies.
  — Bob Guccione Jr, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
• That translated to a $13 billion loss for Musk on top of the $3 billion that had flamed out on the space launch.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
• Now, the Packers will turn to Willis, a 2022 third round draft pick who flamed out in Tennessee.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
• Why did Quiet Riot flame out by the end of the Seventies?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Germany and China flamed out in the group stage even though it was expanded from 24 to 32 teams.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• Miner then uses the oven mitts to pick up the piece of the device and to put the smaller flame out just before the 20-second clip ends.
  — Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News, 9 July 2021
• Tesla flamed out of the Trillion-Dollar Club in a hurry.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2023
• If the Warriors do flame out, miss the playoffs or exit early, how do things look for next season?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2023
• Will all the elements come together, or will Pixar once again flame out?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 June 2023
• Demagogic manias like the ones Kramer fueled tend to burn bright and flame out.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
• Teams that swung freely seemed to advance more often in the playoffs, while more disciplined clubs like the Dodgers tended to flame out.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• What if, too, the Panthers flame out of this Tampa series after losing the first two games in Sunrise?
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 21 May 2022
• Appropriate, since the CEO just flamed out and flew the coop with a nice multi-million dollar nest egg.
  — Ed Garsten, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
• Pence made his own run for president this year, but flamed out in the primary contest.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• When the Manic Street Preachers released their debut album in 1992, the Welsh neo-punk band vowed to burn hot and flame out quickly.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
• In a city where retail stores flame out quickly, Fred Segal for years was able to stay on top of the latest trends — and set many of them, thanks to its visionary founder.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2024
• Toro moved back to Madrid after flaming out in New York and has taken a job with Juan at his father’s shady real-estate firm.
  — Vulture, 1 Aug. 2023
• There are plenty of stories of young pitchers who had outstanding starts to their careers only to flame out.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 15 June 2021
• One of the adults, who was not a district employee, was wielding a flamethrower-like device during the incident and shot flames out of it three times.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2024
• Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren was courtside to watch his league flame out.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2022
• But the long-term plan for Disney to move many of its highest-paying jobs to the state has at least stalled, and may flame out, prompting other governors to court the company.
  — Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Oct. 2022
• Towns’ name could be floated in rumors if Minnesota flames out of the postseason early.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
• There were murmurings about his success, but he was widely predicted to flame out.
  — Robert Peck, Wired, 3 Aug. 2020
• If the Heat flames out in postseason, would a semi-rebuild ever be considered?
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
• Dallas ran him into the ground Elliott isn’t the first professional athlete to burn bright early and flame out in a way that’s unfair to his talent and approach.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Rison flamed out in Jacksonville after failing to mesh with quarterback Mark Brunell, whom Rison took shots at in the media after his exit.
  — Zak Keefer, The Athletic, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025