Sentence examples for failed about from inspiring English sources
"My first semester, I failed about three major classes," he told me.
"The Prince George represented everything that was shortsighted and failed about the city's approach to homelessness.
Mr. Steets said today's shutdown occurred automatically when the breaker failed about 10 a.m. and the main generator disconnected.
One of the Falcon's nine engines failed about a minute into its flight, forcing the rocket to continue into orbit on its remaining eight motors.
HAVING rebuffed a fine man whose presidency failed, about half the country, I suspect, will have the rueful blues this weekend.
While the paper's daily circulation for 1992 was an all-time high of 1,181,500 copies, advertising lineage has failed about 40% since 1987.
"The current design of schools has been going for about 50 years and it consistently fails about 40% of students," Thomas says.
The idea was to own up to the reality that marriages fail about half the time.
It is by definition experimental, and its experiments fail about as often they succeed.
It is also admirably tolerant of human frailty: The best hitters, the absolute best, fail about two out of three times.
Two out of every three black marriages fail, about twice the rate of white marriages.The real problem is the behaviour of those few black men who are considered good catches.
