Sentence examples for I occasionally fail from inspiring English sources

I know that I occasionally fail to get back to people promptly or let something fall through the cracks.

In response to one impassioned plea I shall for the time being continue to base my puzzles on the now-superseded 2003 edition of Chambers, but you must accept that since I have and use the 2006 edition (as I guess most of you now do) I will occasionally fail to notice that I have included a word introduced in the latter for the first time.

An impressive flat-screen TV topped it all off (though it occasionally failed to register some channels).

If it occasionally fails in this endeavour itself – the recent case of the French Roma, for example – then that is no reason to abandon these standards altogether.

When I managed a retail operation, if you had demanded of me that I make an impact, but not pay my staff well, train them, equip them with computers, market my product to the public, take chances on new innovative ideas and occasionally fail, I would have asked you what planet you were from.

Tests gave error-prone results, i.e. occasionally failed to provide a positive result for the true hypothesis (false negative) or provided positive evidence for a false hypothesis (false positive).

In other species, individuals or populations may occasionally fail to metamorphose.

In T.S.B. 0182-11 oNov.v. 23, Toyota said some 2011 Sienna headlamps might occasionally fail to illuminate.

Complex models occasionally fail to stand up to basic common sense, and offer little of real value.

Fretting about things they occasionally fail to do is to miss the whole essence of what sets them apart.

But even the best hiring and training practices will occasionally fail, and there will inevitably be times when someone has to be fired.