Sentence examples for much fail to from inspiring English sources

Mostly Bs You did not so much fail to win the internet as fail to connect to the internet.

Ms. Jones, whose diffidence lends her musical performances an air of intrigue and seduction, does not so much fail to act as refuse to try.

Far from letting go of an idea that didn't so much fail to take off as crash and burn on the runway, David Cameron clambered back into the cockpit for another spin.

Why do the most committed of us sometimes eat and drink too much, fail to exercise, or skip our quiet time?

Mali have pretty much failed to deal with any crosses into their own box.

A show that pretty much failed to deliver on most counts.

But that idea too – recasting C4 as if it were a mini BBC – pretty much failed to fire.

Whatever heartache he experienced when "someone who likes me very much" failed to materialise, he always had friends.

Holland captain Mark van Bommel, who tried hard to keep his fracturing side together, offered his opinion on why a team that promised so much failed to deliver.

Thin-lipped English officers who criticised him for putting himself in the frontline too much failed to understand his Irishness and the way it conditioned his passionate leadership.

Alastair Cook won the toss at Lord's and invited South Africa to bat, a 10.15am start under grey September skies providing the homeliest of English conditions, albeit the expected early movement pretty much failed to show.