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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:

And despite the speaker's many failings, there is no one else with imagination or energy waiting in the GOP wings.
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.
What it does view as a fundamental violation of Christian charity is detractio : disclosing another human being's private failings and weaknesses in order to ruin his good name or otherwise bring him into discredit.
The tale of the selfless prophets is giving way to a more realistic but no less amazing story of how egoists, hustlers, and sensualists rose above their failings to remake the United States.
It's harder to be smug if you're aware of your own failings.