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Example sentences for: failings

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

If they're right, the worst thing they can do for the country is to refrain from pointing out these failings.
It seems to me we have rough parity between Clinton and Dole in the personal failings department, at least as far as "family values" go.
To condemn Jefferson for his failings, you must also condemn Lincoln, but to condemn both is to throw out the progressive historic tradition by which the present civil rights movement gains its legitimacy.
[A]ll writers have their imperfections and failings: but I may safely conclude in the general, that our improprieties are less frequent and less gross than theirs....
And after Jane died, Cassandra stressed her goodness more than her wit or her bitter eye for human failings.