'failed shot' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to describe a shot someone took that didn't reach its intended target. For example, "The goalkeeper was able to block the striker's failed shot."
After an Italian politician is shot by a gunman somewhere in the surrounding buildings, Whitman attempts to find where the shooter was positioned by finding, in a column, the bullet hole of a failed shot.
According to Goodwin, the timing was not quite right, but that failed shot "worked" on a different level and proved to be a "fascinating shot".
A minute is added to the athlete's final time for each failed shot.
Even with two assists in Pittsburgh's 3-2 vintory in Game 3 against Detroit, he could not escape that both were failed shots that resulted in rebounds for his linemate Sidney Crosby.
How many times had I tried and failed that shot in training?
He also achieved a bit of notoriety for spinning the puck on his stick during a failed penalty shot attempt against Tuukka Rask.
On Sunday the 76ers closed out a sensational series by defeating Toronto by a point on a failed final shot by Vince Carter, the Raptors' rising superstar.
After a failed early shot at stardom in 1930's "The Big Trail", the Duke had to toil in "B" western potboilers for nearly ten years before director John Ford gave him another chance at the big time.
Two failed jump shots later, the Nets were strapped with their 11th straight defeat, a string that equaled the franchise's longest losing streak since the 1989-90 season.
Diyas did hit a few failed drop shots in the second set, but mostly continued to hit everything down the middle, hoping to extend rallies in which Williams would eventually make an unforced error.
Being penalised at breakdowns afflicted both teams, but Pisi twice failed with shots at goal while Halfpenny kept Wales in touch with penalties in the 16th and 28th minutes.
