Sentence examples for was fail from inspiring English sources
verb
To be unsuccessful.
- Throughout my life, I have always failed.
Time was, fail was simply a verb that denoted being unsuccessful or falling short of expectations.
"Atlantic had so serially failed," he said, "that it was overwhelmingly likely the next thing we would do was fail, and the next thing we would do was fail".
He was desperate to play in the finals, which he had already said would be his final international tournament, but the last thing he wanted to do was fail to do himself justice in front of the people that matter most to him.
Left for him was lay off 80percentt of your employees and right was fail as a company, but you have got to go left.
"What I did was fail to address that properly, but I didn't because I didn't believe him and I rubber-stamped it".
The technology was fail safe, but it wasn't.
In many ways my father was failed.
Mary Bell was failed miserably in 1968.
She was failed by the system and we were failed by it too.
The slab was failed by punching shear.
