Sentence examples for failed to drop from inspiring English sources

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A 10-footer by Stoudemire failed to drop as regulation ended.

Afterward, he still did not know how either failed to drop.

James played doggedly and assuredly, even when his shots, like most everyone else's, failed to drop.

But West Virginia guard Joe Herber failed to drop in a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

A huge sack of balloons failed to drop on cue after his Syracuse speech.

When Woods failed to drop the knife, five police officers opened fire, killing him.

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She is afraid it might get stuck in a slot and fail to drop to the proper place.

They drop their fish and shopping, fail to drop their anchors, crash their boats and skive off work.

But if Jerry's misguided shots fail to drop his target, Ferrell's mismanaged plot device fails to spoil his novel.

Except there is a hitch: the middle part of the curtain fails to drop, obscuring the new message until some frantic tugging backstage brings it down.

Fowler's birdie effort kisses the left lip of the cup, but fails to drop, teetering tantalisingly just behind on the left.

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