Sentence examples for and failed to use from inspiring English sources

Many have tried, and failed, to use carbon nanotubes to do these jobs.

"They essentially took the president's great strength as a messenger and failed to use it smartly".

Twice he tried and failed to use his connections with the Mujahideen to get access to Osama Bin Laden.

Ailes has in the past attempted, and failed, to use his network's power to advance a chosen Republican toward the White House.

It slipped in Uttar Pradesh under the divisive leadership of a local MP, Yogi Adityanath, who tried and failed to use Hindu-Muslim tension as a vote winner.

The by-election win in Crewe, where Labour tried and failed to use class as a weapon, seemed to vindicate their hunch.

Boomers claim that newer hires are inarticulate, can't spell and fail to use the social niceties of please, thank you, let alone a formal thank-you note.

Probably not, so long as it tries to be friends with everyone and fails to use its weight on those, such as Mr Mugabe, who defy it.

Faustus, like a lottery winner dazedly squandering millions, wastes his time and fails to use his knowledge: the deeper narrative thrust of the play is always towards the denouement, when time runs out.

Alongside Disney's The Lone Ranger, recent big-budgeted westerns have traded brutality for conceptual quirk; refusing to acknowledge a tainted past in favour of such insensitivity as trotting out Johnny Depp in redface to talk about "spirit walkers" and fail to use articles in his sentences.

And it's definitely not good news for women who do not want to become pregnant and fail to use other methods of contraception along with the tech.