Sentence for failure | Use failure in a sentence

Failure example sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use failure in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for failure.

• But it was a failure. (9)
• She foretold the failure. (10)
• Was it his failure with her? (8)
• Never failure more absolute! (10)
• It will be just another failure. (8)
• In the end his attempt was a failure. (9)
• And my failure would be no loss to you! (10)
• For a single failure is all the more conspicuous. (10)
• I gave it a fair trial, and it was a dead failure. (9)
• But failure had marked the enterprise for its own. (19)
• The effort and the failure were both of good omen. (10)
• The newspaper proved a costly and ignominious failure. (16)
• My failure is, perhaps, too great a passion for sport, aha! (10)
• Yet he was hoping that he had not been created for failure. (10)
• She had already made her failure in wishing to play the part. (9)
• Another failure, and just when we thought we were sure of you. (9)
• It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. (4)
• The failure of our military guard made the situation somewhat grave. (7)
• Why, naturally, I deplore a failure, let the cause be what it will. (10)
• The timidity of Andre now explains the ultimate failure of the plot. (18)
• The failure of the rebellion necessitated a hasty flight from Germany. (3)
• She was given to him because of the known failure of her other adorers. (10)
• That had been left to himself, and he was more or less conscious of failure. (8)
• Her pride had kept her back from Hilary, till she had felt herself a failure. (8)
• It was his kindness that had done for him, and made his married life a failure. (8)
• Perhaps the vexation of his failure made him call Mrs. Horn in his heart a fraud. (9)
• The expedition from which so much had been hoped in England was an utter failure. (19)
• All these young creatures put their capital into an undertaking doomed to failure. (12)
• But failure was his portion, and in hours of reflection he would yield to despair. (12)
• Arnold was not successful in his enterprises after his failure to surrender West Point. (18)
• But if he could not, Westover would give his mother a reassuring reason for his failure. (9)
• He affected not to be downcast by the failure of the last attempt at a rising in Milan. (10)
• Another failure of mine was the sight of Whittier, which I then very much longed to have. (9)
• Her pride had so revolted at that failure that she had led the way to utter estrangement. (8)
• I suppose that almost any sort of success looks a good deal like failure from the inside. (9)
• He liked her having tried to rattle him, and he smiled to himself in recalling her failure. (9)
• She seemed to be going over a game just played, and trying to trace the cause of her failure. (9)
• The first number is bound to be a failure always, as far as the representative character goes. (9)
• Sorrow over their failure and suffering had robbed her of strength, and in the winter she died. (12)
• If not, the world by her failure to make good would be impoverished, and her vagary proved wrong. (8)
• But as to any other failure, it was certainly tacit, and it still rested with him to give it effect. (9)
• With each failure something had shrivelled in him, till the very roots of his affection had dried up. (8)
• Then only did Laura, to cover her failure, turn the subdued light of a merry smile upon the Brookfield pew. (10)
• His quaintness had a heartache in it for her; and he was boyishly simple in his failure to hide his suffering. (9)
• The failure of her attempt to put a nicer idea into their heads disconcerted Frances Freeland for a moment only. (8)
• He saw that such a course implied the failure of the military to deal with the problem of subduing the Americans. (18)
• Perhaps I ought to have accepted the consequences of my failure, then, and have given up, and taken you away at once. (8)
• Indeed, the suggestion was needless; to go by the short route meant absolutely certain failure to deliver the message. (1)
• They were without a long-boat, and each attempt to {148} launch canoes in the boiling surf was attended with failure. (19)
• At moments, he desired revenge for his failure to get near her spiritually, and was ready to commit follies of all kinds. (8)
• He is very, distinctly fallible, but I think his life is not less instructive because in certain things it seems a failure. (9)
• His failure to seduce the French Canadians to break their oath of loyalty to King George caused him the bitterest chagrin. (19)
• He decided that she would have ignored the failure with the same impersonality as that with which she now ignored the success. (9)
• His powers of description faltered before that task; and, proud of those powers, he did not choose to subject them to failure. (8)
• Roberval reluctantly obeyed, and thus this first attempt to establish a French colony on the banks of the St. Lawrence ended in failure. (19)
• He tried again, but again Margit reappeared, serene, and full of pleasant humour; and his failure this time appeared to him in a comic light. (8)
• But otherwise he was still young, intellectually; that is, there was no failure of interest in intellectual things, especially literary things. (9)
• There was also one of those joint episodes of ours, which, strangely enough, did not eventuate in entire failure, as most of our joint episodes did. (9)
• Three times he failed, and after each failure sat motionless again, crimson and exhausted; the fourth time he succeeded, and slowly made for the office. (8)
• The failure was incredible to Clemens; his sanguine soul was utterly confounded, and soon a silence fell upon it where it had been so exuberantly jubilant. (9)

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