Use "cropper" in a sentence

1. As for the have-nots, having come cropper at their studies, they would be left with their hard grind for the rest of their lives

2. But the farmers’ suicides make another story; it’s the marginal guys, who gamble on the cash crops that come a cropper; why not, lurking behind the probable windfall is the possible failure to devour; have you heard of a paddy farmer or a wheat grower committing suicide as the cash crop losers do? Yet with their eye on the rural vote-bank, how the parties in opposition tirade against the government of the day over these avoidable calamities; maybe the political power changes hands over their dead bodies but the destitute continue to consume pesticides as a way out of their debt traps

3. He came,' my father paused to give full weight to the bizarre word - 'a cropper

4. 'Well, of course, Greenacre, or whatever he was called - the snooty don - he came a cropper

5. I think it’s far too easy to get tripped up by chartism – and many investors come a cropper when they rely on it

6. When I heard him making off I dashed after him, and his comrade, who was at the far end of the rope, jerked it taut when it was between me and the man I was after, with the result that I came a most terrific cropper; then they promptly fled, and are safely away by this time," explained Burton

7. ” We had been flattering ourselves that we had discovered a new “outlook,” and we came a bad cropper