Sentence examples for failed to spot a from inspiring English sources

I failed to spot a single one.

Three years ago, as education secretary, he failed to spot a looming crisis over teacher redundancies.

Scientists at FSS had failed to spot a 9mm spot of blood on the trainer of one of the killers.

At age 3, Isabel came down with chickenpox and doctors failed to spot a far more dangerous complication — necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating infection.

He rarely shouts, but when the maître d' failed to spot a record producer who had appeared at the bar he exploded — "You fucking moron.

Last July, scientists reported that after running their Large Underground Xenon (Lux) experiment for 20 months they had still failed to spot a Wimp.

Then, shortly after Kean's goal, officials failed to spot an off-the-ball kick by Mario Mandzukic on Alessio Romagnoli in the Juventus penalty area.

Confronted with evidence of contractual arrangements listed in Malaysian public records, the company's lawyers said they had made an "error", having "failed to spot an amendment made by our client to a draft letter that we had prepared".

At about 3.45pm, witnesses recalled, Barthes paused before crossing the street at 44 rue des Écoles; he looked left and right, but failed to spot an advancing laundry van, which knocked him down.

Most famously, the team failed to spot an exploit that became known as the "loot cave": players, standing in a particular spot, could shoot at a never-ending stream of enemies, and collect astronomical quantities of gear in a short period of time.

Several games have ended in controversy, where a scoring play has been deemed acceptable by a referee who failed to spot an illegal pass made in plain view of a section of the crowd.Of course, some of sport's most remarkable recent human errors have taken place in football, where FIFA maintains an adamant stance against any form of assistance which, it fears, would corrupt the beautiful game.