Sentence examples for failed by a from inspiring English sources

The effort failed by a vote of 247 to 182.

The effort failed by a single vote in committee.

South was forced to finesse, and failed by a trick.

He has failed by a wide, wide margin.

The amendment failed, by a vote of 219 to 186.

This was doubled and failed by a trick.

His July 1944 bomb plot failed by a fluke.

Failed by a deteriorating education system and sent astray by society's dropping standards.

But it failed by a 20-to-2 vote in the Senate commerce committee.

But the amendment failed by a vote of 269 to 152.

My first try at this plan failed by a vote of 70 to 30.