(v. i.) To make a ridiculous failure in an undertaking.
(n.) A failure or abortive effort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(2) Arsenal’s supporters had made their feelings clear after watching attacks fizzle out at Leicester on Sunday, with entreaties to sign a striker.
(3) If, as Philip Larkin claimed, sex began in 1963, it appears to be fizzling to an end in the early decades of the 21st century.
(4) That the Occupy movement fizzled out because it didn’t have a leader … I hope this film will in some way help generate a leader who will pull young people together in a way which they will understand.” The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ bestselling series, had already staked out more politically conscious territory than Harry Potter and Twilight, the teenage franchises that preceded it.
(5) Vinny's fame was quick, fickle and fizzled out a generation ago, hence leaving him quite literally sleeping in a skip, pickled by booze.
(6) In each case the bomb fizzled or was spotted before it could go off.
(7) A ny political movement that fails to understand two basic psychological traits will, before long, fizzle out.
(8) In fact he is practically in residence: his new play, The Red Lion , opened last month; when we meet he is in final rehearsals for Three Days in the Country , a version of Ivan Turgenev’s study of love and lust, thwarted idealism and slow-fizzling marital despair.
(9) Being a carer is an exhausting role and leaves little room for excitement, romance or respect to flourish, elements compulsory for any relationship to fizzle along, let alone burn bright.
(10) We'd gather on the top tier for the fireworks display, watching catherine wheels spitting and fizzling out on the tree trunks, sparklers dancing in our hands.
(11) And the crucial determinants of that momentum are the media – if they say it is fizzling out, then that becomes self-fulfilling.
(12) Outside the meeting, an admirer told me: “It may take a few years, but you just watch: he’ll rise the same way Erdoğan did.” * * * It was only an accident of fate that spared Demirtaş from a brief, fizzling glory as a freedom fighter, and led him into politics.
(13) The couple’s relationship apparently fizzled out sometime around 2007, when Davis married Thomas McIntyre Jr, a construction worker.
(14) Black labour had been welcomed, especially at sea, but "when the armistice was signalled on 11 November 1918, the wartime boom for black labour fizzled out as quickly as it had begun".
(15) A rambunctious centre forward, Deane had a 21-year career that fizzled out in 2006 when he was 38, after more than 650 matches, not quite 200 goals and three England appearances.
(16) Without this, the projects may have dragged on and fizzled out.
(17) In the summer, hopes of a strong recovery were boosted by a second quarter rise in GDP of 0.3%, but the momentum in the first half of the year appears to have fizzled out.
(18) Mathematical projections suggest about 93.4 million people may catch the virus – including around 1.65 million pregnant women – before the epidemic fizzles out, a team reported in the journal Nature Microbiology.
(19) However, the recovery is likely to fizzle out in the new year when the VAT increase kicks in.
(20) Yet later, when Depay could have rolled the ball left to Young, who had sight of goal, he chose to shoot and the threat fizzled out.
Frizzle
Definition:
(v. t.) To curl or crisp, as hair; to friz; to crinkle.
(n.) A curl; a lock of hair crisped.
Example Sentences:
(1) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus in Drosophilia melanogaster is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of epidermal cells to produce a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles (for example on the wild-type wing all hairs point towards the distal tip).
(2) David Brisbane (@DavidB1996) "With Adrian Chiles" #BritishThreatLevels May 24, 2017 Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) And now on radio four, our new comedy drama #BritishThreatLevels May 24, 2017 Friz Frizzle (@FrizFrizzle) And the next Doctor Who is... Kris Marshall!
(3) The nerve patterns formed in the mutants prickled, inturned, and frizzled, however, were largely normal, indicating that in these cases the polarity of the cuticular structures produced by the epithelial cells is altered without any effect on the polarity of the associated axons.
(4) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required to coordinate the cytoskeletons of pupal epidermal cells so that a parallel array of cuticular hairs and bristles is produced.
(5) The function of the frizzled (fz) locus is required for the development of a parallel array of bristles and hairs on the adult cuticle of Drosophila melanogaster.
(6) The frizzled (fz) locus of Drosophila encodes a protein (Fz) with a seven-transmembrane-domain profile characteristic of G-protein-coupled receptors.
(7) The modifications include naked necks, leg feathering, frizzle feathering, silky feathering, fat quills, and feather abnormalities caused by behavioural hypertrophies.