7 sentences with 'fail'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fail and other words derived from it.
• « As I watched my dog fail the most important test of his life, Dad came over and put a hand on my shoulder. »
• « When something goes wrong, the pessimist usually blames himself. "I'm not good at this," he says, "I always fail." »
• « He and his followers created a number of "utopian" cooperative and communal communities (many in the United States), but these tended to fail before long. »
• « And, finally, towards the end of his life, Marx himself was increasingly worried that socialists, including self-styled Marxists, would try to make a revolution "too soon" and that it would fail or result in disaster. »
• « There, the journalist was captured and threatened with death by Eritrean guerrillas, but his powers of persuasion did not fail him, and he negotiated his way out of danger. »
• « Even if the lifts fail and the air-conditioning system is conspicuous by its absence, there is one thing a traveller will invariably find in a hotel: a temperamental, if not hostile, shower, the operation of which requires an engineering degree. »