How to Use flunk out in a Sentence

flunk out

verb

• And by the end of the academic year, Logan had flunked out.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 21 June 2023
• By Christmas, he’d flunked out of school and moved in with his parents.
  — Abigail Jones, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• But Martinez was never very good at school and flunked out halfway through 10th grade.
  — Daily Pilot, 15 July 2019
• Which is the best place to be during rush week, September, nobody’s flunked out yet.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Not long after quitting football, Christie flunked out of school.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 25 Jan. 2020
• These questions look like they were prepared by a first year law student who flunked out for being patently stupid.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2018
• This is the same Groff, who will graduate in December with a degree in Communications, who flunked out of school and missed a year.
  — Branson Wright, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Jeffries-Cobb, daughter of an educator, flunked out her first year.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• Nobody flunks out, and the consultant class self-perpetuates.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Vivian Morris, who’s just flunked out of Vassar, probably doesn’t get her own allusion; Gilbert surely does.
  — David Gates, New York Times, 1 June 2019
• The negative consequences may not be obvious at first, because the pass rates in these courses are very high and students who take them tend to graduate from high school instead of flunking out.
  — Susan Dynarski, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
• Hill found that students in the bottom 25% of those admitted typically get less generous financial aid packages and are more likely to drop out or flunk out.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• He was accepted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16 but flunked out after three years as a math major.
  — Mary Williams Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2018
• Candidates share amazing stories—everything from surviving cancer to almost flunking out of school due to peer pressure and drugs.
  — Debby Rice, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
• But the sad, almost inevitable result is that the absent student will flunk out of college — attendance is one of the primary markers for success in the first year of college and for ultimate completion of the college degree.
  — Patricia McGuire, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• Weiss, a consummate tinkerer who once flunked out of college, wasn't the first person to think of using an interferometer to try to detect gravitational waves.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 3 Oct. 2017
• The kid is flunking out of private school, has spearheaded a dozen or more extracurricular clubs, agitates to have Latin added to the curriculum, and directs a remarkably detailed stage production of Serpico.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 June 2023
• If competitive advantage has been gained through scholastic shortcuts taken on behalf of quasi-students who should have flunked out, how can that happen without significant sanctions?
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2017
• In fact, about 90 percent of experimental treatments flunk out during clinical trials, either because they aren’t shown to be any more effective than the standard treatment or because their side effects are too severe.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024