Sentence examples for failed a little from inspiring English sources

Capitalism itself failed a little more than a year ago.

"That's one student I feel I failed a little bit," he said.

At Fox Meadow Elementary School in Scarsdale, power failed a little before 8 a.m.

"I think a lot of us feel maybe we have failed a little bit.

Overnight, Adams felt liberated from that chronic sense of having failed a little before the day had even started; she was also spared days of grueling commutes.

There is a sense that you have failed a little, having not come up with some more constructive diversion, such as making a hovercraft out of sticks, or, more fundamentally, not having created a child who will happily do puzzles in absorbed silence for prolonged periods of time.

If all else fails, a little rebranding could help.

And for once, one wanted a novel to fail a little.

It's the difference between a country that can succeed in the euro and one that can only hope to fail a little bit less.

His style, even as his body fails a little, is unhelpfully youthful, like a man in the advanced stages of mid-life hair loss who still insists on gelling into a quiff his thinning fringe.

In a 1976 interview in Rolling Stone he says, "I would like to fail a little for the public…What I want to do is go onto some areas that I'm insecure about and not so good at".