Example sentences for: fail

How can you use “fail” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We have enjoyed chatting with those who have telephoned, and we have—without fail, we think—sent written replies to all who have written (with the exception of those who sent publishable EPISTOLAE).

  • The helicase and C-terminal mutations that fail to localize normally in the nucleolus fail to reduce the SCEs and implicate the nucleolus as a functional location for BLM during DNA replication.

  • Those in the American press are usually dry and thin and fail to catch the personality of a man or woman.

  • Studies have shown that the sitosterolemic patients hyperabsorb all sterols (cholesterol and phytosterols) and fail to excrete phytosterols into bile [ 3 4 5 6 7 ] . Positional mapping of the STSL locus to human chromosome 2p21 led to the identification of two genes, ATP binding cassette (ABC) half-transporters G5 and G8 that were mutated in affected individuals [ 8 9 10 11 12 ] . The protein products of these two genes (sterolin-1 and sterolin-2 respectively) are thought to form heterodimers to constitute a functional transporter, based primarily on the genetic evidence that affected individuals are either completely mutated in sterolin-1 or sterolin-2, but not both [ 12 ] . More recently, evidence from in vitro expression of these proteins has been presented that these two proteins co-immunoprecipitate, supporting this conclusion [ 13 ] . ABCG5 and ABCG8 appear to be present in all mammalian genomes examined to date and are highly conserved between species, indicating that these genes may have a similar function in other species.

  • "He had balls the size of an elephant to fail in public in another sport," my colleague Tony Kornheiser said before the Bulls game.


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