Sentence examples for fails to throw from inspiring English sources

But this evasiveness fails to throw his biographer off the scent.

Proselytizers from these groups often pick days when the weather is bad, and they often bring children with them — which never fails to throw me.

Frank goes about his business, showing properties to potential buyers, preparing for the holiday and coping with whatever life throws or fails to throw at him.

But he never fails to throw me the occasional literary curveball, like the collected plays of the Belgian avant-gardist Michel de Ghelderode or Eugene Burdick's prescient 1964 novel "The 480".

Still, it never fails to throw me when anyone demands to know my daughters' precise ethnic makeup, praises them by singling out their light hair or large eyes, or asks whether such white-looking children really do belong to me.

Miliband struggles on competence – the bungled Manchester speech or the many failures summed up in Fraser Nelson's remark, quoted in Tim Bale's new book on the Labour leader, that Miliband consistently fails to throw a second punch.

It hoped, but failed, to throw the major out again.

Lewis failed to throw Carpenter within 20 minutes — the terms of the match — so Carpenter scored a technical victory.

And for the first time in 53 games, Tom Brady has failed to throw a touchdown pass.

A week later, he failed to throw a touchdown pass as Oklahoma trounced Missouri, 38-17.

None – A tournament devoted to and won by collective effort failed to throw up an outstanding individual.