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How to use dud in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Dud means a device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. Example: “I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.”

Examples of dud by meaning

nounA device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or...

  • Alzheimer's Drug Aduhelm Went From Being Hailed A 'Game Changer' To A Dud2024 February 1, Joshua P. Cohen, “Innovation - Healthcare”, in Forbes

nounA failure of any kind.

  • I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.
  • If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
  • Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)...

More sentences with dud

  • She got a real dud. Well, that's the luck of the draw for you.From the entry luck of the draw
  • We'll take 'er duds fer payment — an' I'll 'ave 'er shawl fer a start.2022, Vivian Stuart, The Exiles. From the entry mockered
  • "Salt away that chicken feed in your duds, and skip along," says Buck.1908, O. Henry, “Tempered Wind”, in The Gentle Grafter. From the entry salt away
  • You gonna cough up some new duds or what?2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “Kinksters and kinksterettes—Who are these people, anyway?” (chapter 1), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex…. From the entry duds
  • If the movie was a dud, people would want to distance themselves from everyone involved, lest they be tainted by loserishness.2000, Carol Wolper, The Cigarette Girl, page 237. From the entry loserishness
  • They grab his duds and his picks as well.1970 June, traditional, “The Blackleg Miner” (track 4), in Hark! The Village Wait, performed by Steeleye Span. From the entry hoy
  • The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.2020 July 20, Simon Jenkins, “Britain deserves better than an Old Etonian Donald Trump”, in The Guardian. From the entry delegate
  • I took a long, hot soak in the bathtub and spent another twenty minutes with the local fishwrapper while waiting for my duds to return.1982 September, Gordon DeMarco, chapter 23, in The Canvas Prison, San Francisco, Calif.: Germinal Press, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry fishwrapper
  • The equicidal tendency of such mares would dampen the enthusiasm of the most passionate stud, making such an unfortunate stallion what breeders call a “dud stud.”2021, Wendy Doniger, “Horses in Indian Nature and Culture”, in Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares: Horses in Indian Myth and History…. From the entry equicidal
  • For the Fourth week in a row I have had 3 live legs of the Quaddie only to be dudded by West Coast the last two!2007 July 16, gF, “Screw Fremantle”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet). From the entry quaddie
  • Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women. From the entry dudely

Meaning of dud

  1. noun A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
  2. noun A failure of any kind.
  3. noun A loser; an unlucky person.

Full definition of dud

Questions about dud in a sentence

How do you use dud in a sentence?
Dud is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.”
What is a short sentence with dud?
“They grab his duds and his picks as well.”
What does dud mean?
Dud means a device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dud (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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