Sentence examples for life failed from inspiring English sources

The attempt on Seward's life failed, but Lincoln died shortly after seven o'clock the following morning.

However, the attempt to give the title a breath of digital life failed and the website was shut.

In the end, Mr. Rogers's attempt to draw attention to Mr. Kennedy's personal life failed to stir up enough support.

On Monday, after he collapsed and returned to the hospital in an ambulance, attempts to save his life failed.

He had hopes of becoming a church organist, but appears – after a bright start – to have felt that his life failed to proceed as he'd wished.

Many were jobless, others were dissatisfied with their work or graduate-school choices, yet they didn't blame themselves if life failed to meet their expectations.

Meanwhile, Italian-American writers dealing with issues other than the mob or working-class life fail to win similar recognition.

How does one pick up the pieces when the reality of your life fails to match the movie in your mind?

I don't think readers will fall as deeply in love with this curiously cold woman, whose inner life fails to leap off the page.

Her nondescript versions of "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Lush Life" fail to illuminate either the material or her ideas.

W H Auden once asked playfully: "When life fails/ What's the good of going to Wales?" Mark Haddon's The Red House could have been written to answer the question.