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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:

Despite its initial failings, Siegel’s Flamingo survived him, as did mob infiltration of casinos.
In London, a Financial Times editorial said the United States has made itself an easy target for China's ambitious spies because of security failings that "are just the latest symptoms of a deep muddle over the direction of US policy towards China."
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.
[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....
We can try to get people to change their language use, to make them more precise, to make them more honest, but it doesn't help to blame the language for failings we perceive in language users.