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"Failure" in a Sentence (19 examples)
Don't set your failure down to bad luck.
You should acknowledge your failure.
You have Jim to thank for your failure.
We found the failure of the experiment at the last moment.
We thought their shop was a failure, but now they've gotten out from under and even expanded.
All our effort ended in failure.
The reasons for our failure are as follows.
Our attempt has proved to be a failure.
Far from being a failure, our negotiation was a great success.
Britain's currency crisis has turned into a political one over government failure to stop the pound from going into free-fall.
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For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
What exactly is a "successful failure" in rocket science? A so-called "successful failure" is one where important lessons can be gleaned for future tests and where the risks of harm are low, experts say.
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Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
But as with individual train failures you have to tackle every one as it arises and assume it will happen again, which it will, if you don't do something about it.
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