verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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Just a few weeks ago he had been saying the whole affair would fizzle out and Banfield would sink back into anonymity once more.
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It was like a rocket, brilliant to start with then fizzling out to nothing.
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The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
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After a promising start, the campaign fizzled out in the summer when the full Co-operative Congress refused to back it.
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Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf.
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Partly he hoped her star would quickly fizzle out .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The project fizzled and Turner left the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blizzard kept demonstrators away, and a planned church vigil reportedly fizzled for lack of interest.
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In the past, hand-held communicating units, with more limited functions, have fizzled.
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The plan was carried out a century later, but at the time it fizzled.
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The road fizzled out at a gate plastered with fire hazard warnings, leading on to the moor itself.
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The story fizzled when two things were learned.