4633 examples of failure in sentences

If you look at the future, you see nothing but coming failure and disappointment.

Habit also counts very largely in the regular return of the man to his job, and the fluctuations of employment, the failure of the employing class to provide any alternative to idleness during slack time, break that habit of industry.

That the arrangement miscarried was due to Mr. Mulkey, and not to the prudence of Major Rinehart or the failure upon my part to carry out the program.

Firing with the howitzers ceased as it was clearly a failure, and a consultation was held.

When the Indians discovered this move they made a determined attempt to break the line, but the troops had had time to fortify and the attempt proved a failure.

When daylight came we tried to breakfast off the hen, but it was a rank failure, and we harnessed up and drove on, getting a meal at a ranch ten miles from Prineville, to which place we drove that night.

In one respect it was a rank failure, due, I have always thought, to the rank cowardice of some oneprobably more than one.

But when the candle was ignited it was evident that the light would not be sufficient for the purpose and there was not much surprise when the film proved a failure.

It is so very certain that we cannot afford to lose a single ponythe margin of safety has already been far overstepped, we are reduced to face the circumstance that we must keep all the animals alive or greatly risk failure.

The scheme develops itself in the light of these figures, and I feel that our organisation will not be found wanting, yet there is an immense amount of detail, and every arrangement has to be more than usually elastic to admit of extreme possibilities of the full success or complete failure of the motors.

In Browning, however, the failure is in art, not in thought.

She wished she had never married: not only was her husband a failure, but to all appearances her children would be the same.

Perhaps Lord Rowton finds it more convenient to live on the vague but splendid anticipations of future success than on the admitted and definite failure of a too cautious book.

The sailor, under the weight of his failure and the unusual libations, relapsed into sulky silence.

His gestures of quiet protection were trying to console Ferragut for his failure.

For there are moments, long moments of perfectly awful failure in Jane Eyre.

" What is worse than all, Louis MooreLouis, the hero, Louis, the master of passion, is a failure.

He is Charlotte Brontë's most terrible, most glaring failure.

Charlotte Brontë said that the character of Dr. John was a failure because it lacked the germ of the real.

And whenever Charlotte Brontë "took" a character, as she took the unfortunate curates and Mr. St. John Rivers, the result was failure.

It is true that she kept her head above the stream, and that the failure of the material event did not frustrate or hinder her ultimate achievement.

The failure of constitutional emergency powers under the German Republic.

This keeps young men from entering, and finally results in failure or in some form of "reorganization" that drives out the older members.

The business companies have had a dismal history of hardship to surviving members and of eventual failure.

Even with the favorable conditions under which the fraternal orders conduct their insurance business they are doomed to failure unless they adopt rates and policies based upon adequate reserve accumulations.

4633 examples of  failure  in sentences