Example sentences for: failings

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

  • Pennington's authoritative and blow-by-blow account shows failings not only in the butcher (who was, incidentally, Scottish Master Butcher of the Year in 1996), but also in the inspectors who had visited his shop eight times in the previous two years.

  • In his surprise resignation speech, Yeltsin admitted his failings.

  • I say his failings will be less about power, more about love.

  • He has embraced the Arab Human Development Report, which was highly critical of the Arab world's political, economic, and social failings and called for greater economic and political reform.

  • And after Jane died, Cassandra stressed her goodness more than her wit or her bitter eye for human failings.


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