flake out in a sentence

Examples

1. Like a turbodiesel engine-- which will be the major competition for this V-10, I suspect-- it performs best under a load that would cause a 5-liter or 5.7-liter V-8 to gasp and flake out.
2. Like a turbodiesel engine-- which will be the major competition for this V-10, I suspect-- it performs best under a load that would cause a 5-liter or 5 . 7-liter V-8 to gasp and flake out.
3. Marsh ( and numerous SXSW staffers, and several audience members, including myself ) was miffed that the guy who was supposed to be moderating, Michael Greene, wasn't there, having flaked out less than a week before.
4. "I'm disappointed, I had a lot of my votes missing that were excused . . . and a couple of people just flaked out on me, " said Hinojosa, who sponsored Senate Bill 85 in the House.
5. The character portrayed by Jennie Garth ( " Beverly Hills, 90210 ) is a high school senior who goes to second base with her boyfriends, drinks alcohol, blasts rock music and lately has been flaking out in school.
6. When he moved to Paris in the early'90s to write a book he was planning as an updated " Tender Is the Night, " he wound up churning out three-- all of them about a man flaking out and not writing a book.
7. Gutierrez, who Bush said " learned English from a bellhop in a Miami hotel, " rose through Kellogg's ranks from selling Frosted Flakes out of a van to head a company that this year will sell nearly $ 10 billion worth of cereal, cookies and crackers.
8. "You fly around a couple of years with the plane in service, carrying passengers, as a proof test that the combination of airplane and engine is a reliable combination and it's not going to keep flaking out, " said Richard S . Meyer, a FAA spokesman.