Sentence examples for or proved from inspiring English sources

She had turned to bottled oxygen, which the police said either ran out or proved insufficient.

Some patients have had bands removed because they slipped or proved ineffective.

Fine, but if wrongdoing is admitted or proved, Jenkins will have to explain how Barclays failed to spot it.

True, no less than Shakespeare, Moliere and Corneille wrote plays that flopped in their day or proved forgettable.

Early bioplastics melted too easily, or proved unable to keep soft drinks fizzy when they were made into bottles.

One by one, the most promising 3-year-olds in his barn were either injured or proved to be not good enough.

Mr. Pape said that over the last 17 years, this strategy has been tried six times and backfired or proved ineffective in each instance.

One approach is to ignore factors that have not been admitted or proved to a jury, often resulting in much shorter sentences.

Had he run a better campaign or proved to be less arrogant or relied on Bill Clinton's help more, Gore might have won them all.

Formal security of these schemes was not argued and/or proved until many years later [D.

With CED, this person stated, there "is the potential of investing [in] technology that might later not be cost-effective [or] proved to have safety issues" (Australia Researcher 2).