Sentence examples for little failed to from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
He said little but failed to hang up properly and the station recorded his following somewhat garbled comments to his hostages.
A game that had only nine hits and little action failed to match the pregame buzz starring Epstein, the Cubs' president of baseball operations.
The seemingly random assemblage of scenes, altered by lighting but little else, failed to build a tangible portrait of "Butoh America" — whatever that is.
Their song March Of The Sinister Ducks – "Look closer and you may recoil in surprise/At web-footed fascists with mad little eyes" – failed to translate into a national anti-duck uprising.
The little comet failed to emerge on the other side of the sun.
There he translated André Gide, tried his hand as a short-story writer, painted a little and somehow failed to meet either Hemingway or Scott Fitzgerald.
Was it a rip-roaring, flame-breathing flash of tooth and talons, or a gummy little monster that failed to really get off the ground?
The popular movies "Ryan's Daughter" (1970) and "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959) failed to crack the top 10.
