Sentence examples for thin failing from inspiring English sources

5.04pm BST But on his way down the table, Ronnie pots a blue too thin, failing to land on a red.

Kaiyo says it is "normal" to be thin in Japan, and failing to fit in to the stereotype can lead to a lack of acceptance from friends and wider society.

From his portraits he stares out warily, his eyes hooded and his thin lips trying, but failing, to smile.Long before the Tudors became television celebrities, historians sought gleams of sunshine in his reign by tracing the emergence of his second son, the future Henry VIII; and so it is again here.

Mr. Assad, 69, who is in failing health, looked very thin.

Thinning, mainly, because they are old, failing, poorer and cut off; their Maine sanctuary no more than a memory, not so much nostalgic as uneasy.

Simple design strength formulas in the Direct Strength Method for the thin-walled cold-formed steel sections failing in the mixed mode of local and distortional buckling have been studied.

And, like Macy, after the first few pages I was alerted to what looked to be another failing: the voice and structure seemed gimmicky, clever but thin, and certainly not sustainable.

With smartphones at saturation point, and failing to dramatically improve, tablets only getting marginally thinner, and cameras, music players, portable gaming consoles and satnavs killed by smartphones, wearables are currently the most innovative area of consumer technology.

Shrimp Lisboeta, however, were dry, failing even to pick up the hydrating liquors from their thin tomato sauce.

Despite a somewhat rocky start and a thin budget, the duo and their team managed to turn what was a failing business into, well, not exactly a raging success.

Using an in vitro motility assay, an association was observed between the increased PKC expression in failing human hearts and a reduction of the force exerted on thin filaments [ 29].