Sentence examples for failed knocking from inspiring English sources
Late this afternoon a second line failed, knocking out power to Seaside Heights, Ortley Beach and Lavallette.
A day after the levees broke, the generators in the hospital failed, knocking out ventilators, transfusion machines and fresh water supplies.
About 10,000 customers in Brooklyn and Queens lost power around 6 30 p.m. when feeder lines failed, knocking out a substation; most customers regained power within an hour, but service was not fully restored until nearly 2 a.m.
Japan's tsunami seems to have succeeded — where years of boycotts, protests and high-seas chases by Western environmentalists had failed — in knocking out a pillar of the nation's whaling industry.
His opponents failed to knock him down in 106 professional fights.
They had been wrong so often, as blow after blow failed to knock him out.
Henderson took second on Bell's hit-and-run grounder, but Piazza and Ventura failed to knock him in.
But even this failed to knock her off her pedestal, for she never forfeited the adulation of her fellow Americans.
It might be claimed, for instance, that the housekeeper failed to knock loudly enough, hence the hotel is at fault for this terrible embarrassment.
By contrast, in an interview with his local paper today, Mr Paterson failed to knock down reports of Mr Davey's attempt to block the research.
THERE are other things the Treasury might do when a major financial firm assumed to be "too big to fail" comes knocking, asking for free money.
