Sentence examples for failed have from inspiring English sources

The handful that have failed have been a fraction of the size of IndyMac.

Most of the ones that have failed have been small firms, he said.

The radio transmitters that failed have always been unreliable -- even when they are working perfectly, a slamming door can sound like a gunshot.

Would someone of lesser ability, someone who, as it happened, had not also threatened to go off and run for someone else if her appeal failed, have received quite such tolerance?

American consumers, who for decades have been the country's tireless source of growth when all else failed, have cut back on their spending more sharply than at any time since the early 1980s.

The 103 deaths now attributed to defective Firestone tires, most of which occurred in Ford Explorers that flipped when their tires failed, have galvanized Congress to tackle a far larger traffic safety problem: vehicle rollovers.

Where policy has failed, technology has succeeded.

Motorola had failed and Nokia had failed.

Regulators have failed, executives have failed, banks have failed, markets have failed.

We have failed, and George Bush has failed.

Activists have failed.