Verb (used without object) : The reform movement fizzled out because of poor leadership.    From Dictionary.com. 

The fizzling is a great visual effect but the main point is that the information on the tape was destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [DonationCoder.com Forum] Reference

I only saw it as it was just kind of fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2007] Reference

Which candidate, however, is top pop, which one is kind of fizzling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2008] Reference

And if it does that, eventually it will be dissipating and just kind of fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2007] Reference

That spark that used to be there is kind of fizzling; it seems like Travis just isn't trying as hard anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Iowan - Online Edition] Reference

Why do sizzling couples start fizzling this summer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2008] Reference

Here's a prime one, steaming hot, crisp and fizzling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

I think it was picked up, but I saw it fizzling there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Grace Jemison Rohrer, March 16, 1989. Interview C-0069. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Wince at the contempt fizzling in that name -- Skippy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

Also this morning, the fizzling away of the NHL season.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2005] Reference

This is one argument that shows no sign of fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . .] Reference

How do you keep all that passion sizzling and not fizzling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006] Reference

But it was also likely related to a fizzling month-end trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short-Term Treasurys Advance] Reference

Matt heard the fizzling blast, followed by the telltale whistle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

While one system is fizzling out and another one is still going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007] Reference

fizzling: A second problem case for the probability view is fizzling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

Another lead fizzling in the so-called fake Rockefeller kidnapping case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008] Reference

ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Yes, we'll get to the fizzling in a minute.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2005] Reference

Since then, his proxy campaign has been fizzling as settlement talks intensified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icahn Ends Feud With Yahoo,] Reference

The Chandra Levy story had been slowly fizzling before Condit spoke out last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Bad To Worse] Reference

If Obama loses South Carolina, he's in Huckabee territory: one big win fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks"] Reference

The fizzling trail of the flare arced across the cirque, reflected in the tarn below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

The march again proved wrong those who had come to believe that mass action was fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Soda sales might be fizzling in the U.S., but long-term investors should still reach for Coca-Cola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirsty Stock Portfolios Could Go Better With Coke] Reference

They also gripe that instead of being portrayed atop an epic wave, the Kook is on a fizzling spray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surfer Statue Stokes Gnarly Controversy in California] Reference

After a little while sounds were heard like the fizzling of ginger beer in hot weather, and at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference

But you see some clouds but some -- how -- how things are fizzling out over there, not in the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference

Hurricane Dean soon may be a tropical storm, but as you can see, it's not fizzling out any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2007] Reference

He was fizzling like a baking-soda volcano, saliva slicking his cheeks and nostrils and chin, his eyes rolling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

I'm wondering if you are seeing indications that the resistance is fizzling, that you've broken the back of that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2004] Reference

It should be fizzling out, as much of this carries on into Georgia and the Carolinas through the early morning hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference

It didn't take us long to get over the hill, the vicious little one-pounders crackling and fizzling round us all the while.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

For verisimilitude, each frame of tornado had to contain millions of chaotic particles -- some being born, some fizzling out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grand Illusions] Reference

We want to show you some pictures from the storm Ernesto that is slowly making its way and fizzling out along the east coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2006] Reference

Meekie, the mother of the black babies, had fetched in the parcels from the cart, and already there was a fizzling sound in the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference