Sentence examples for language failed from inspiring English sources

An amendment by Nelson that mirrored the Stupak-Pitts language failed in the Senate.

An effort by that measure's opponents to soften its language failed in 1998.

Furthermore, American use of the English language failed to capture the irony of the PONY brand sported by West Ham and a rotund, floppy haired chap at Southampton whose name escapes me" – Richard Duff.

When I was a dog I pulled the sled with the other dogs the way a roof collapses, inevitably, and even as the wind must always push or it isn't wind, it's air, and I was air that had come to think of it, in some trouble to me the others felt no twitch of, or if they did, our language failed what must have been its purpose, or I won't soon be a dog again.

"Looking back, I was an English major for whom language failed at a moment when I needed it most".

This year a judge agreed that the initiative's deceptive language failed to inform citizens of what, exactly, they'd be voting on.

Sometimes language fails us.

But as it is!... My language fails!

What happens when political language fails?

I think language fails us as a tool oftentimes for this reason.

Much of his humor and pathos come from his characters' awareness that language fails them.