Sentence examples for failed to punch from inspiring English sources

They tried and failed to punch their way through the wind.

Thousands of voters failed to punch a hole clean through the ballot, turning the recount into a torturous argument over "voter intent".

Schumacher's championship was as good as sealed when Coulthard failed to punch past him off the grid or even maintain his position.

Colorado failed to punch it in on a good flurry in front of the net with 21.2 seconds to go, and Bourque then fired a shot that hit Belfour and clanged off the right post with eight seconds left.

The first gaffe came when tailback Chris Brown failed to punch in the ball on fourth-and-1, as he got corralled behind the line of scrimmage by Florida's Torrey Davis.

Ms. Backus noted that 6,686 ballots in Broward County alone were not read by the machine reader because voters failed to punch the hole next to their choices all the way through.

Three plays fail to punch the ball in, so Coughlin, probably fuming, goes for it on fourth down.

The north fails to punch its weight because it lacks one strong voice and an authority that puts the north first.

But what about voters using punch-card ballots who fail to punch through the card completely, leaving attached to the ballot a paper fragment that the nation has now learned to call a "chad"?

Mr. Ahmann acknowledged that he had made the statement in his application and had also tried to get Miami-Dade to buy a new stylus he had designed that was supposed to make it less likely for a voter to fail to punch a card through.

If conductors fail to punch 1 out of 100 tickets, Metro-North can protect itself by simply raising the ticket price by 1%.