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Example sentences for: failures

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

Another of dad's embarrassing failures might cause me to slip back into the alcoholic fog that marred my childhood, had any such fog actually existed, which it did not.
We were all--businessmen and staff--impressed with the failures of policy that caused the Depression and that may have contributed to the outbreak of war.
Disregard the quasi-coincidental similarities--the paparazzi , the eating disorders, the overprivileged backgrounds, the parents' divorces, the educational failures (Diana was a finishing-school dropout; Monica made it through college with difficulty).
If a few additional days go by and no widespread computer failures present themselves, Yardeni told investors, "you'll be able to read my lips.
Whether the inaccuracies are intentional, mere failures to understand, or just oversimplifications in order to dumb down the message or meet space or time limitations matters not.