duds in a sentence

Examples

1. Some points are duds, ruled invalid by the House speaker.
2. Who could have guessed he'd prove such a dud?
3. With Elle safely delivered from dud-dom, what now?
4. Ultimately, the debate itself was considered something of a dud.
5. Compared to him, Grinchy had proved quite a dud .)
6. Leaf, as we know, is already a certified dud.
7. Since then, though, he's been a dud.
8. It provides one of eight various excuses to dump the dud.
9. The rocket simply buried itself in the earth, a dud.
10. But against Sampras, the player nicknamed Scud was a dud.