Sentence examples for and fail to find from inspiring English sources

I think you can try to take his pulse on court and fail to find one.

Did the developers try and fail to find tenants, or was the search a sham?

Vile, unspeakable, grotesque, terrifying we struggle and fail to find words to give due weight to what happened.

Beehives become underpopulated, as bees either leave the hive to die or become lost outside it and fail to find their way home.

But their research was neither the beginning nor the end of the story of how bureaucracies try – and fail – to find a good promotion method.

Later, I'd look at the book itself and fail to find any way into its prose, as impermeable as that TV screen.

Numerous media organisations tried and failed to find him.

I lost my support network of family and friends and failed to find a new one.

To this end he tried, and failed, to find a British actress.

Perhaps, after all, Cornelia had always known what she wanted — and failed to find it.

I looked for a hint of irony and failed to find it.