Sentence examples for boats failed from inspiring English sources

Tradition has it that boats failed to rescue the poet after he threw himself in the water to protest government policies.

Several of the boats failed to land at the correct positions in the confusion, while those that did were swept by gunfire and grapeshot.

Each successive wave swept more men into the water and desperate attempts to launch boats failed when the small craft were swept away by the waves and broken in the surf.

The boats failed to arrive until 1 am and several had been destroyed or lost en route, so a last minute change of plan mean that only the Dorsets would cross.

He even found himself in debt in the 1980s after an investment in a crab boat failed.

In 1967, when Mr. Choi was just 15, his father's boat failed to return from sea.

I'm also a little sad Constance Wu, who is amazing on Fresh Off the Boat, failed to register.

But this time the Swift Boating failed, utterly, and that failure is yet another revealing historical marker in this summer's collapse of political support for the Iraq war.

The tradition commemorates the life and death of the ancient Chinese poet and reformer Qu Yuan, who drowned himself to protest government policies; attempts to rescue him by boat failed, and the tradition of boat racing began.

On Saturday, the Barberi again crashed on its approach to Staten Island, apparently because the system that slows the boat failed, causing the ferry to slam into a pier, injuring about three dozen passengers.

They join a group of Iraqi and Syrian Kurds who found themselves in a similar situation in 1998 when their ramshackle fishing boat failed and they were abandoned by traffickers before landing at Akrotiri.