Sentence examples for I failed for from inspiring English sources

"There's a sense of me that says I failed for getting shot," he said.

If I were to say I'm with Bloomberg, it would say you're against Democrats in Albany, literally all the Democrats in Albany, and you're pointing out Pataki's impotence on the issue because Pataki will say, 'I tried to do that, I failed for eight years.' " But that was about as far as Mr. Cuomo would go, at least until later in this campaign, in detailing his ideas.

At the end, it was barely functioning as a station car, with 130,000 miles on the odometer, no air-conditioning (I gave up after it failed for the third time) and a $900 brake job on the horizon.

And I'd failed, for the zillionth time in the last few days, to get lost.

What was weird for me was that the first time I was failed for being too aggressive and the second for being too timid.

The combination, I felt, failed, for two reasons: First, the elongated leaves on both plants have somewhat similar shapes and did not provide much contrast.

I was failed for an entire semester based solely on attendance.

It made me feel like I had failed for some reason, and that feeling made me unhappy.

For the second straight year, I failed to account for Cinderellas — and now Butler, V.C.U., Florida State, Richmond, and Marquette remain in the mix, mocking my conservatism.

My parents would not have worried for quite a while, even when I failed to return for tea.

Before my trip, when I thought of the environment issues facing the Amazon, I failed to account for the cities, villages, and families that have existed here for lifetimes.