Sentence examples for device that failed from inspiring English sources
Bomb experts on board inspected an explosive navigation device that failed to go off when the spacecraft sank.
Blowout preventers — the device that failed in the BP explosion — must be inspected and certified by industry, government and third-party professionals.
He settled into the engineer's chair and double-checked the equipment: the radio, the video displays, the cab-signals device that failed him on his southbound leg.
[C7.] Guidant Settles Lawsuit Over Heart Device Guidant agreed to settle a lawsuit over the death of a 21-year-old man who used a company-made heart device that failed, said a lawyer representing the man's family.
The goal of the junk shot is to force-feed the preventer, the device that failed when the disaster unfolded on April 20, until it becomes so plugged that the oil stops flowing or slows to a relative trickle.
The Fuero de los Españoles (1945), guaranteeing personal freedoms (provided no attack was made on the regime), was a cosmetic device that failed to establish Franco's democratic credentials with the Allies.
The unfocused, seemingly haphazard character of Lesley Krane's photographs is belied by the careful stitching together of two sections of each image, a device that fails to enhance the significance of her mundane observations.
She persuaded twelve women to talk about experiences that were then regarded as shameful secrets: contraceptive devices that failed, back-alley operations, the anguish of giving up a baby for adoption.
Soon after the update was released, reports started hitting the web of bricked devices that failed upon installing the update.
Whether the number of devices that failed to explode in Yemen are more or less than 1% of the cluster bombs used on that country is impossible to know.
But trucks and tractor-trailers come here all the time, as they do in similarly inappropriate spots across Britain, directed by G.P.S. navigation devices that fail to appreciate that the shortest route is not always the best route.
