Sentence examples for sort of failed from inspiring English sources
The United States men's soccer team tried to help Canada remember it has a soccer team, too, but even sort of failed at that in a spirit-deadening 0-0 tie.
His 65 today was even better than yesterday's, blemish-free as it was on a day when everyone else clung onto his coattails for dear life, and sort of failed as they bumped their way around Pinehurst No2.
A man from Idaho Falls, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, was arraigned on charges that he did knowingly "Attempt to Assassinate the President of the United States in violation of Title 18 U.S.C., Section 1751(c)" — there's a law against that specific sort of failed murder, and the maximum penalty is life in prison.
"I sort of failed systematically at least in terms of my own goals," Parker told Fallon of his history in the industry, "but somehow failure has transformed into a weird kind of success".
This is the "estate", apparently some sort of failed collective, where all hope has been lost and all the buildings are falling down.
In addition, this view seems to imply that one who entered a secure society from some sort of failed state, and who has not yet benefited from the secure state, cannot be punished if he commits violent criminal acts in the secure state.
There is also the lamb's head, which sort of fails to solve the problem of extreme gaminess inherent to the preparation.
Which sort of fails to explain how the most prolonged period of upward mobility in the past century wasn't in any way impeded by the existence of Medicare.
Just like Roxxxy, Chi Chi has a certain charm about her, even though her outfits never really slay, she's never a great actress, and sort of fails at the challenges.
What the article sort of fails to really point out is how none of those guys were strong enough to take their mercurial, whimsical candidate into a room, sit him down, and tell him NO, NO, NO. Bill Clinton, famously, was a candidate who deserved, and got, final edit on his campaign.
It's sort of where failed celebrities go to die, except instead of dying they're allowed to live in a limbo of perpetual fame, isolated from the rest of the world, while PR companies try to sell pictures of them DJing on empty beaches to websites in America.
