Sentence examples for fails to kill from inspiring English sources

If the bullfighter fails to kill it within this time, a trumpet warning is blown and the president issues an aviso.

As part of the militants' unusual, though often convincing strategy, Awakening members that Al Qaeda fails to kill are then sought out to rejoin the insurgency.

ASA spokesperson on complaints about the Gocompare.com ad in which Sue Barker lamentably fails to kill Gio Compario with a giant bazooka.

Despondent over the loss of her lover, Babe tries — and fails — to kill herself: the rope breaks, and then she bangs her head trying to stick it in the oven.

But just when a quiet sit-down meal would be most welcome to kill an hour or so in the terminal, airport restaurants seem to have disappeared, replaced by fast food -- food that not only fails to kill time but is also nondescript at best, unpalatable at worst.

Scientists have studied this issue and confirmed what farmers' thought: DDT fails to kill many locusts.

Having failed to kill himself, Li fled.

-- and he failed to kill her.

The "decapitation" strike with which the war opened failed to kill Saddam Hussein or his senior lieutenants.

The military has also failed to kill or capture even one top Taliban commander.

It failed to kill him, but wounded one of his bodyguards.