Sentence examples for failed to pick out from inspiring English sources

It also failed to pick out a motorcycle ahead of me at night.

Two minutes later returning Brighton forward Ulloa broke down the right, but he failed to pick out Keith Andrews who was well positioned on the penalty spot.

With 17 minutes played, Henrik Ojamaa skipped past the Rangers goalkeeper, Allan McGregor, but failed to pick out his team-mate, Jamie Murphy, with the Rangers goal gaping.

One man testified that he recognized Mr. Drake when he later saw him on television in handcuffs, while several others failed to pick out Mr. Drake in police lineups.

Lee Wallace failed to pick out Nicky Law.

Ibrahim Affelay's delivery was less reliable and, after breaking clear down the left, his low cross failed to pick out Van Persie in space in the middle.

Mansaré marks the moment by picking the ball up in midfield and driving down the left, where he narrowly fails to pick out Bangoura in the box.

64 min: Portsmouth playing some lovely stuff in the middle but Mendes fails to pick out Diarra as he rushes through the Cardiff defence.

Updated at 7.17pm GMT 7.10pm GMT 2 mins: Jones battles well to retrieve the ball and initiates a move forward via Altidore, who just fails to pick out Johnson with a neat touch wide.

From Lavoisier's perspective, for example, the antiquated term dephlogisticated air sometimes means "what remains when phlogiston is removed from the air" (in which case, because there is no such substance as phlogiston, the term fails to pick out anything in the world).

He fails to pick out a team-mate to fire the ball into the gaping goal, but the ball eventually finds its way to Oscar, who brings a decent save out of Pletikosa with a left-footed drive through a thicket of bodies from the edge of the penalty area.