Sentence examples for shortcoming was from inspiring English sources

One shortcoming was immediately evident.

Mr. Berko said the shortcoming was no fault of the remaining social worker's yeoman efforts.

His greatest shortcoming was a tendency to become overexcited in battle and issue too many orders.

But without the studio layering, Big Audio Dynamite's main shortcoming was exposed: Mr. Jones's milquetoasty voice.

This shortcoming was tolerated by Firefighter Linnane's friends all over the world because of his cheerful, easygoing and tolerant personality.

The only other shortcoming was an individual banana cream pie with a cookie crust that was too hard to cut.

This shortcoming was on clear display Friday night at a campaign fund-raiser at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco.

Kershaw's greatest shortcoming was that he allowed the Braves to hit the ball to the Dodgers infielders.

But in Bradford and in Yorkshire Conservative circles it has been widely speculated that the fatal shortcoming was a failure to attract enough pupils.

This shortcoming was on display at the event that aroused the most criticism during the trip: his speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Monday.

One shortcoming was that the trial enrolled only about half the number of patients intended, limiting its ability to draw conclusions.