Failed

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"Failed" in a Sentence (11 examples)

You worked hard, or you would have failed.

You failed to wake Harry up.

If it had not been for your advice, I would have failed.

But for your help, I should have failed.

Without your assistance I would have failed.

If it had not been for your support, he would have failed in business.

If it were not for your help, I might have failed.

The reason why you failed is you did not try hard enough.

To my surprise, he has failed.

To my surprise, he failed the examination.

The government is unwilling to bail out the failed bank.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.