Sentence examples for fails to shoot from inspiring English sources

Harris actually gets upset when he fails to shoot his age.

Where the Coen brothers have scored is in giving their washed-up, etc, hero a subversive pride in his own hopelessness: Bridges's Rooster never for a moment doubts his own abilities, even when he fails to shoot a whiskey bottle lying on the ground.

All the suspects shoot, but Usha bursts into tears and fails to shoot.

Gündogan, though, failed to shoot and Burnley cleared.

This time he tried, and failed, to shoot himself, though Moorcroft Wilson chooses not to explore this.

Only 14 players in the 132-man field failed to shoot par or better.

Wilson tried to pull the trigger again, he testified, but the gun again failed to shoot, and Brown struck him.

It was for some, including Tiger Woods, who was among just 13 golfers who failed to shoot par or better.

Playing the lead in Rohmer's film has failed to shoot Russell to the heights of stardom.

But in the six weekend rounds at the majors that he has played and completed this year — the third and fourth rounds — he has failed to shoot under par.

Hunting with princes in Andhra Pradesh he was charged by a bear, but failed to shoot it because he dared not use a rifle (a.465 Holland & Holland India Royal) that had cost £800.