1. Are there any more batteries? This one's a dud.

2. The new manager is a complete dud.

3. He replaced a dud valve.

4. This battery is a dud.

5. Pauley's last performance was a major dud.

6. The mine was a dud.

7. Critics have labeled the new telescope a dud.

8. Only if there was no card or a dud card would the car be photographed as evidence for prosecution.

9. Grubbing for business on dud leads was, at least, after a fashion dealing.

10. If at second glance you deem him a dud, you can slip back into anonymity and leave him to the barflies.

11. A dud for most of the year, with peaks at the start of the school year and at Christmas.

12. But the diamond dealer sold them dud gems and paid dearly for it.

13. The whole plan turned out to be a dud.

14. During yesterday's sham battle, party A fired a dud.

15. The crucial round is a dud.

16. He stepped on a dud mine.

17. In offices, the arguments for the token dud are even stronger.

18. The defining characteristic of a true dud is that he or she resists improvement staunchly.

19. But although dud consumer loans have attracted much attention, individuals are not the only ones failing to pay on time.

20. The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned.

21. Any buildup in bad loans and dud projects could weigh down growth and public finances.

22. He's made eleven films in the last twenty years and not one a dud.

23. It was like a man convicted of forgery paying his fine with a dud ￡50 note.

24. Even indifferent lawyers may be kept going by their clerk arranging for briefs to be passed to them from dud solicitors.

25. Overall, the event was a moderate success as a sideshow and a dismal dud as a basketball game.

26. A fiery ball shot up over the rooftops, where it disappeared in mid - air -- a dud.

27. The OS is truly wonderful,(http://) and we're fools to have mistaken it for a dud.

28. I haven't seen a script with this level of ignorance about the legal system since 1998's Ashley Judd dud "Double Jeopardy."

29. The shells are of poor quality, there is another dud here.

30. Your mortar barrage round on the intended target. That round will be a dud.

1. Are there any more batteries? This one's a dud.

2. He replaced a dud valve.

31. Even more important, dud teachers encourage students to be resourceful.

32. Pyongyang's last nuclear weapons trial, you'll recall, was a dud.

33. It will purchase dud assets at above-market prices. It does serve to recapitalize banks, but it rewards the worst offenders and does nothing to restore trust.

34. We lit the firecracker and waited for it to go off, but a dud.

35. That allowed the banks to release some of the reserves set aside to cover dud loans.