Examples of 'failed' in a sentence

Meaning of "failed"

fail (verb): To be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal or to neglect to do something. In English, this verb is used to express lack of success or falling short of expectations
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  • simple past tense and past participle of fail
  • unsuccessful
  • Decayed; worn out.
  • Bankrupt.

How to use "failed" in a sentence

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Never mind how he failed or triumphed as a man.
Failed to play the disc is incorrectly inserted.
And what you failed to do for him.
Failed to get the network user information.
You tried and failed to bribe him.
And failed to grab him by his hair.
My unreliable helmsman failed to warn me about that.
You failed to mention his trial today.
We had not totally failed in saving sharks.
Women failed to be promoted for various reasons.
It could be the first failed attempt at skydiving.
It failed to hold that targeted killings were unlawful.
The mission you failed was on the border.
I failed to do that and we all suffered for it.
I am an attorney with a failed marriageand a bleached head.

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He failed to report for duty this morning.
The annual flora failed to set seed.
They failed the past three times.
The experiment of civilisation is a failed evolutionary experiment.
You had failed the brakes of my car.
And if and where security measures failed.
We have failed but we need to keep trying.
Minimum intensity if either lamp has failed.
I told him if he failed to convince you to come to me.
Failed to mention who was driving her skin.
That suggestion failed to attract sufficient support.
Failed to mention a lot more than that.
Whoever did this failed in their attempt on you.
I failed two classes in the last quarter.
The dominant economic model has failed.
I have failed enough in this country already.
Your kings and queens have failed us.
They have failed and been defeated once.
However if it was a deliberate attack it seems to have failed.
You failed to convince your friend to confess.
Then you would have failed my class.
And she failed to impress the authorities.
The upper pylons had failed again.
We have failed them every single time.
So all our attempts at bail have failed.
The operation failed to produce a healthy hand.
Minimum intensity if one lamp has failed.
A failed attempt to commit suicide another failure.
The light bulbs must have failed.
I failed him too many times to count.
Except for one factor he failed to consider.
You failed to signal at that last turn.
Tell your father how he failed you.
You failed to protect something very delicate.
Otherwise sooner or later we would have failed.

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