Sentence examples for saves failed from inspiring English sources

That never materialized; Gagné, the pitcher who once set a major league record with 84 consecutive saves, failed.

After an early pair of Brad Guzan saves failed to wake USA up, the team continued to look sluggish, by comparison with the organized Hondurans, who seized every opportunity to surge forward in numbers and put pressure on an unconvincing US defense.

We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets.

The failed state was invented in late 1992 by Gerald Helman and Steven Ratner, two US state department employees, in an article in – you guessed it – Foreign Policy, suggestively entitled Saving failed states.

Eduardo picked up a consolation after Robert Green had made two good saves but failed to hang onto the second shot from Mario Mandzukic.

But those numbers took a beating last weekend in San Diego, when Jansen was asked to record two four-out saves and failed each time.

Desperate efforts to save Christina failed and a huge manhunt was launched for her killer.

19 April: Freddie Gray died after two surgeries attempting to save him failed.

She was in the basement of Mr. Chang's Ssam Bar late at night, trying to save a failed experiment in fried apple pies.

These opportunities came from the same passage of play: Krkic dribbled along the right and when Hart saved Arnautovic failed to finish the rebound.

Not only has Walt's gambit to save Hank failed, but he has also just given up the location of his DIY desert bank ("pretty specific instructions").