The protests fizzled, but his personal power to attract votes remains formidable.

The protest fizzled, and Giap was expelled from school.

Her protest fizzled.

The protest fizzled in a few days, an apparent failure, but it caught the attention of the state attorney general, Eliot L. Spitzer.

In general, protests over the Americans' role have fizzled across the nation this week.

The sound system was dismantled; the protest fizzled.

Those protests fizzled.

As Academy Award winners trooped backstage to chat with reporters, several said that although the protests fizzled, they would not criticize the demonstrators.

A small number of agitated parents contacted the school to find out what was going on, and soon the "protest" fizzled.

Meanwhile, Burk's much-anticipated protest fizzled last year, attracting more reporters than demonstrators.