1.   The planned coup fizzled when Armey, in a move that the conspirators considered a double cross, reported the plot to Gingrich.

2.   But hearing that Hitler survived, some of the plotters lost their resolve and the coup fizzled.

3.   By the time he arrived, the coup was fizzling.

4.   Chavez was restored in power early Sunday, after the coup fizzled.

5.   The April coup fizzled after the interim government dissolved congress, the supreme court, and vowed to re-write the constitution.