Sentence examples for little fail from inspiring English sources

Is The X Factor now ruining not only the lives of its current contestants but those who actually did rather well, and are now roped back in to try a little "fail"?

What if Twitter goes down, will iOS pop up a little Fail Whale notification, I wondered?

The creators have made a fun little Fail Whale graphic of their own, indicating the the game will be down until Twitter comes back up.

Actually, the same thing is starting to happen in the way they drive — or it risks happening, with all the penalties that are given for the least little failed overtaking effort.

The coalition government's policy of tackling obesity by asking food producers to change their behaviour has achieved little, failed to improve eating habits and excludes most of the measures that would make a real impact, a government-funded study has found.

These are mostly lab studies, he said; other studies examining actual use of sunscreens have failed to confirm an effect, probably because people use too little and fail to reapply the lotions as recommended.

There is no known society where little boys fail to evince this behavior (girls do it too, but far less).

I was devastated when I tapped the broadest part of it and the little dots failed to appear.

In a system where vice-presidents matter little, he failed to bring her supporters into his camp.

The script at times tells you too much and at others too little, and fails to sustain its narrative momentum.

His first play, "Little Murders," failed on Broadway but was a hit in an Off Broadway revival in 1969.