Sentence examples for a blown opportunity from inspiring English sources

"It's a blown opportunity," Kidd said.

"It was a great opportunity, not a blown opportunity," Kidd said.

"Never Mind the Pollacks" is a blown opportunity, a smart premise that its author sabotages with an avalanche of potty humor and a seeming lack of faith in his ability to construct an actual novel.

Either way, the new two-CD tribute to the music of Paul McCartney, "The Art of McCartney," is a glaring example of a blown opportunity.

"If you told me I was going to play Raja Bell and Kevin Ollie and Todd MacCulloch and Jumaine Jones for the world championship, that might have been 2008 and I probably wouldn't have been here". In the end, however, it may have been remarkable but it was also a blown opportunity for an underdog that can't afford to blow any.

To the players, who shot a season-low 35.8percentthethe blown opportunity stung even worse.

Bjorn, to put it bluntly, earned Curtis millions, and Bjorn kept paying the price for his blown opportunity, even quitting in the middle of a round at the European Open a year later because golf had become too much to bear.

Another day, another blown opportunity for Donald Trump.

"We will kick ourselves until Wednesday," forward George Lynch said of Sunday's blown opportunity.

"And I said, 'Who is going to play the main part?' There was a pause and he said, 'Who do I see in the main part?' " Mr. Conrad laughed at his blown opportunity.

The blown opportunity underlined what had been troubling Kiwanuka since he started working on the music for a follow-up album — a feeling that he was holding something back in his songwriting.