Sentence examples for failing at something from inspiring English sources

"They paint it as if breastfeeding is the most natural thing you can do … so when you fail at it, you're failing at something you 'should' have been able to do as a woman," said Stephanie, who eventually switched over to formula entirely.

Who took it easy when they should have been out failing at something.

Whom do they know personally who has done something like this? Have they themselves "come back" after failing at something?

But I refused to admit this, for what I feared more was failing at something I should have learned to do at the age of three or four.

But it's bad form to criticize a work for failing at something it's not trying for, and "The Pretty One" is meant to be funny, not deep.

And in that spotlight, Hillary could hardly succeed for failing at something – and usually that something had to do with being a woman and "doing it wrong".

Deliriously sleep-deprived, drained of fluids, seeing flashes of light, pulling at my fingers until I dislocated one, I was immersed in the drama of my own pain and my own sense of indignation that I was failing, failing miserably, at something thousands of women succeeded at every day.

A big theme of the book is trying to do something and failing at it.

Getting up this bottom-up mindset, becoming part of the bottom-up revolution is something the Democratic Party is failing at now.

Most consumer-tech companies have, at one time or another, launched a product before it was ready, or thought that it was equipped to do something that it ended up failing at dismally.

"So, it's about finding for those children who are failing at school, failing socially and feeling rotten about themselves, something at which they can be successful, whatever it is, and rewarding that child appropriately for it".