Sentence examples for boy failed from inspiring English sources

Another boy failed to turn up and that left only four - Andrew Wood, Raymond Walker, David Kenyon, and Paul Nally.

When that boy failed to show or called to say he was running an hour late, Melissa's spirits would sink -- again.

Delia Medina, 41, found herself at loggerheads with her son's second-grade teacher after the boy failed to hand in homework.

Little wonder, then, that, after Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy" failed to be short-listed for the prize, Seth's agent sent one of the judges a simple note: "May God and literature forgive you".

But when the group's debut album for Bad Boy failed to make them rich, the Lox defected, returning to Ruff Ryders and releasing the ghettocentric "We Are the Streets" in January.

Even the increasingly mouthy Flowers's weakness for a futile feud (chiefly with identikit indie synthers the Bravery and commercial emo band Fall Out Boy) failed to halt his group's astonishingly swift ascent, thanks to tunes of the calibre of 'Somebody Told Me' and indie-disco classic 'Mr Brightside'.

This means that parents typically resort to abortion to realise their preference for a son when the first two attempts to give birth to a boy fail.

He approaches his grandfather, Edward VII Michael Gambonn), who is orchestrating a game for John's cousins -- an esoteric race, possibly involving pats of butter -- that the boy fails to understand.

The next morning the boy fails to wake up: some peanut oil from Bill's takeout food had found its way into the glass of milk, and the boy, who had a severe peanut allergy, has died.

And his unfeeling description of his own murder of a boy fails to register with the reader in any significant way: it provides neither empathetic insight nor a deeper understanding.

The boy is awed by New York at first, but the visit quickly deteriorates, the boy fails to get the book about Vermeer that he sought, and he declares, in the last sentence, "Years passed before I needed to go to New York again".