Sentence examples for muffed from inspiring English sources

Subsequent portents were missed, procedures altered and tests muffed which should have saved the rig.

He muffed a half-chance for a deal with Mr Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, three years ago.

Many felt he muffed big public occasions, such as last year's royal wedding.

Traditionally, computers have muffed this advanced kind of image recognition, and Google finally cracked the problem with its new artificial intelligence system, known as Google Brain.

Israel's story is that the Arabs have muffed at least four chances to have a Palestinian state.

The formation of an American-led "Contact Group" on Yugoslavia in 1994 was in part an admission that the EU had muffed its chance to lead.

ad98fb6b-238f-41e0-9b9b-7e06da4438e1 DAVE WEIGEL thinks Mitt Romney muffed a big chance in the most talked-about exchange in yesterday's debate, when a questioner asked Barack Obama why there hadn't been a response to requests by the Benghazi consulate for heavier security in the days before it was attacked.

Through political infighting, it muffed it.

Each time, this chance is muffed.

It's easy to feel reassured by the terror taking such recognisably freakish form – and as a result, the story's ghastly pay-off feels awkwardly muffed.

I muffed a wonderful chance, and that was the end of me for a while".