How to Use failure in a Sentence

failure

noun

• The drought caused crop failure.
• The scheme was a complete failure.
• He was often crippled by his fear of failure.
• The accident was caused by a failure to use proper procedures.
• He felt like a failure when he wasn't accepted into law school.
• The accident was caused by engine failure.
• The patient was suffering from heart failure.
• She was criticized for failure to follow directions.
• He became discouraged by his repeated failures in business.
• This failure led to the end of the program by the early 1980s.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• That sounds to me a little bit of a recipe for failure.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
• Many hits to the DNA could lead to cell death and organ failure.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• Their failure to capture 50% of the vote, though, forced the two into a June 27 runoff.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Questioning the concepts of success and failure is one of the keys of the series.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• After that though, ask yourself what was the purpose of the failure?
  — Eric Roberson, Billboard, 29 June 2023
• God please protect him from the failures of the fatherless.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
• Snyder’s tenure was marked by failure on the field and disgrace off of it.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• For the second half of the twentieth century, he would have been judged, on that count, a failure.
  — Ross Barkan, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
• In the years after the show’s failure to launch, George Furth’s book got revised, and Sondheim devotees took up its cause.
  — Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The previous renter of the vehicle will be charged with failure to secure a firearm.
  — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
• But a few folks have had a failure and immediately blamed the recipe.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2023
• The project to remake antitrust law along progressive lines has so far been a failure.
  — The Editors, National Review, 4 Mar. 2024
• But no candidate wants to admit that Trump’s time in office was a failure.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
• Sunday, the failure to score in the first half, despite outshooting the visitors 8-1, added to some of the frustration.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Early reports out of Iran blamed the crash on a technical failure, but some alleged that the plane had been hit by a missile.
  — Amir Ahmadi Arian, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• But there's also a deeper systemic failures that the Israelis will have to figure out.
  — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• The lore of Marvel getting 7,000 free tapes from kids in their search for one star becomes an ethical failure.
  — Tavi Gevinson, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
• High rates have already helped cause three high-profile failures in the U.S. banking system.
  — Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 22 June 2023
• But Believer compounds that failure by trying to steer clear of the overt Christian mythology of the genre.
  — Vulture, 6 Oct. 2023
• While walking through, the families pointed out all the failures that contributed to the bloodshed.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024