Sentence examples for fail to catch on from inspiring English sources

If electric cars fail to catch on, low fuel prices will not be the reason.Dig Deeper: Why Chinese firms are so keen on America's battery powered cars (Jan 2014) Why electric cars aren't always greener (Dec 2014) Why the oil price is falling (Dec 2014).

Some people, however, suspect that the real reason for the scepticism is a worry that the successful marketing message which has launched the Prius and its rivals might be tarnished by memories of plug-in electric vehicles, such as General Motors' EV1, which flopped in the 1990s.If plug-ins fail to catch on, another way of escaping the Middle East would be to burn ethanol made from crops.

Make sure your product scores big on the "10 Qualities Of A Successful Product" checklist and there's a good chance it won't land on the trash heap like the nine in 10 that fail to catch on with consumers.

But should New Boyz fail to catch on, don't count jerking out.

He revises the calendar annually, adding new holidays while retiring others that fail to catch on.

The critics says that, for a company who took the humble T-shirt from basic item to fashion icon, to fail to catch on to this year's hot look – the soft jersey cotton T-shirt – is quite a lapse.

But 25 employees were laid off after IndiePlanet.com, one of the Web sites, failed to catch on, he said.

Why do you think the show failed to catch on?

Although the novel received positive reviews, it failed to catch on with readers.

Dell's mobile products, including the Streak tablet, have failed to catch on with consumers.

Its overseas investments soured, and its latest phones failed to catch on with finicky consumers.