fizzle

The captain turned to his wizards. "You take us there, " he ordered. They began to cast, but their spells fizzled as well.

"Now two years later we see that this energy has sort of fizzled and petered out, " Hoffman said.

The in-form midfielder's shot did not lack power but it fizzled over the crossbar, albeit by no more than a few inches.

Or would he be especially assertive and try to show the Bulls what they missed out on when their trade talks with the Lakers fizzled?

Thought to be the next big wave, MEMS-based optical switching devices fizzled when the telecommunications market imploded.

Last week, as Cokemen surveyed their empire, on which the sun never sets, their blood almost audibly fizzled with pride.

Unfortunately, my flight was cut short and I fizzled around like a shoddy firework before plummeting to the ground.

As you wait you wonder how many bad ideas have fizzled out in these self-enforced moments of reflection.

During the Palestinian intifada (uprising) that fizzled out in 2004, Hamas sent scores of suicide-bombers to blow up Israelis.

Henry's scheme seems to have fizzled out.

Senator Obama would have fizzled out and quit by now if he did not have an excellent motivation.

Rob Portman looks set to win his Senate race easily, after the Democrats' attempt to make his a competitive race fizzled out.

Prosecution of the case fizzled out for lack of conclusive evidence .

ITA Software had a reservations system deal with Air Canada and Amadeus landed United Airlines, but both agreements fizzled.

The tooth that smoking smokes fizzled out, with what can take out!

You felt as old as Methuselah , and yet the thing fizzled somehow, and didn't let you be comfortable.

The firecracker fizzled but did not explode.

So far, however, all such efforts have fizzled due to the lack of broad support.

The strikes fizzled out yesterday as authorities pledged to cut some of the fees and offered new relief to the truckers.

The plan fizzled out for lack of money.

Consumers have been through enthusiasms for green purchasing and energy saving before that fizzled out.

Those prospects eventually fizzled for both of us, and months later I literally woke up and found myself liking this boy.

The conspiracy fizzled when cabinet ministers (belatedly) said they (grudgingly) supported the prime minister.

Two years ago, the Spaniards were dynamic in the opening round in Germany, then fizzled against France.

One only needs to walk down the grocery store aisle to find that yesterday's fad has fizzled out like Lindsay Lohan 's singing career.

Rather, they exercised strong authority in their core areas, while towards the edges, their authority fizzled out.

Sure enough, she saw him a couple more times, but eventually, the relationship fizzled out and grinded to a halt.

Turkish-Cypriots have staged protests against Turkey, their sponsor, but these have mostly fizzled.

In Madrid, the party mood fizzled out in seconds, when they lost out in the third round.

The burst quickly fizzled though, when the democratic "revolutions" proved short-lived and prone to violence and corruption.

Slowly, her praise-based relationships, including her marriage, fizzled and died.

Services that let users call long-distance free of charge in return for listening to ads have similarly fizzled .

But as the protests reached their peak, they unexpectedly fizzled out.

All his enthusiasm soon fizzled out.

What if their mind control techniques and frequency fences just "fizzled" ?

As I looked into those eager eyes, all possible excuses fizzled.

When that partnership fizzled, David founded Air Cannons.

That marriage fizzled, as did a subsequent one, before she met Murdoch when she was 30 and he was 68.

Plans to transfer the most toxic assets from the banks have fizzled in many places.

The Satanic activity of the late 1960's had almost totally fizzled out until MTV came along.

The 21-year-old's tea trading website fizzled because he and his classmate-partners lacked both the time and the capital to keep it running.

After a promising start, the project soon fizzled out.

But its pharmaceutical operations fizzled, and were sold in the 1990s.

But the market became overcrowded and many of the new firms fizzled out.

Now that the H1N1 has fizzled out, and not produced the feared second wave of mutations, finger pointing has started.

The Old Lady will look to strengthen their squad this summer after their 2008-09 campaign fizzled out.

The experiment fizzled out because of an unexpected hitch.

The tooth was fizzled out by sweet sootiness , can be done to the hospital blanch an operation, how many money to want?

The play fizzled out at the end.

Street demonstrations in 2009 fizzled out. Opposition politicians fared poorly in last year's municipal elections.

Incident: Only susan of 28 years old is having not short smoke however age, her tooth must be fizzled out again by sootiness black.