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Example sentences for: failed

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Many excellent nominations failed to garner as many CR citations as Chatterbox expected.
When air disasters occur, there is an investigation to determine the cause, much as, at the end of a relationship, we try to understand why it failed, but without the advantage of voice recording, so we're left to squabble endlessly over who said what.
Coverage of Alfonso Portillo's landslide victory in Sunday's runoff to Guatemala's general election seldom failed to mention the positive impact of Portillo's confession earlier this year that in 1982 he killed two rivals for the deanship of the Mexican law school where he was teaching.
Innuendos 97: Fox News' Brit Hume claimed on Fox News Sunday that the "word around town" has it that the Department of Justice--which has failed to nail even one of the million Democrats guilty of campaign-finance violations--is aggressively pursuing its investigation of former Republican National Committee chief Haley Barbour.
Consequently, there were several dialysis patients taking non-formulary statins when our HD lipid management program began, because they had failed to reach goals on formulary statins.