Sentence examples for endeavour but failed from inspiring English sources

Carlton came out for the second half with renewed endeavour but failed to make the most of a period of dominance.

Shackleton's expedition was an epic adventure, but failed completely in its main endeavour of a transcontinental crossing.

Goethe endeavoured to maintain Weimar's cultural position by looking for a successor to Schiller as principal dramatist but failed to appreciate the genius of Heinrich von Kleist, whose comedy Der zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Pitcher) he produced in 1808.

He tried [laughs], but failed.

They tried, but failed.

But the goal Wigan's endeavours deserved failed to materialise and they were indebted to Ramis for keeping the deficit at two when he atoned to a degree for his earlier failings by clearing a Fernando Torres effort off the line.

But fail it did.

Despite all the virtuous endeavour, they had failed to atone for their sins in the Stade Louis II.

Still, though the entrepreneurial endeavour failed to survive, it raises interesting questions.

We endeavour to "fail forwards".

For a moment it looked like the whole endeavour would fail for the lack of rope.