Sentence examples for and failed to sell from inspiring English sources

He has, however, twice tried, and failed, to sell up – in 2008 and 2009.

But both the Tories' Lord Heseltine and Labour's Lord Mandelson tried, and failed, to sell it.

Permira and Apax tried and failed to sell New Look two years ago.

Successive governments have tried and failed to sell Royal Mail over the past 20 decades.

John Major and Lord Mandelson also tried, and failed, to sell the service.

The paintingelicited only a single bottom fisher and failed to sell at $3.4 million.

In A Special Providence, the hero's ghastly, fantasy-riddled mother makes bad art and fails to sell real estate, as did the author's own.

Danielle, a loner and former mascot of her classmates' "I Hate Danielle Club," ends up on her school's summer reading committee, where she tries, and fails, to sell teachers on books more challenging than "Twilight".

The same fate awaits the rest of Europe if the rest of the political spectrum fails to unify, fails to set the agenda and fails to sell the benefits of the union — political, economic, environmental, even civilizational — to a new generation.

Danielle, a loner and former mascot of her classmates' "I Hate Danielle Club," ends up on her school's summer reading committee, where she tries, and fails, to sell teachers on books more challenging than "Twilight". Eli, a nerd, is worn down by pleas from his haranguing mother to be more "normal". He can't wait to escape to a college far, far away.

Among his few acquaintances — friends seems too generous — are Laura Mary Walll, the director's wife), a dour, weepy young woman hiding behind curtains of hair who may have been his lover but now seems no more inviting than the suburbanites to whom he tries (and fails) to sell coupons, ostensibly for the relief for those with multiple sclerosis.