Sentence examples for i should have failed from inspiring English sources

"In Beckett's great phrase," he says, "I should have failed better".

That I should have failed you was inevitable, since no one ever gives up the belief that there is a "mana," as the Polynesians call it, which must be transferrable.

Its testing program in Massachusetts "was passing certain cars it should have failed and failing certain cars it should have passed," said Edmund J. Coletta, spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

He claims that the council failed to consult residents when it should have, failed to conduct an equalities impact assessment, failed to consider other options for the management of the estates, and did not follow the rules for obtaining "best value" for the land.

"I knew that if you hadn't found him we should have failed.

Logically, the new strategy should have failed.

East eventually doubled three clubs, which should have failed by one trick.

It was a speculative combination that should have failed, but Lenderman got away with it.

That should have failed by one trick, but the defense slipped and the contract succeeded.

When she should have failed on a technicality, he passed her.

Vance should have failed the course, but would that failure have made him academically ineligible and thus harmed the team?