Examples of misfire in a Sentence

Verb their scheme to rob the bank misfired disastrously and landed them all in jail

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Houston created more scoring chances in the first half, only to misfire a few times. — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2022 One of the greatest putters in golf history continues to misfire from 8-15 feet and as a result, he's lost ground on the field midway through Sunday's final round. — USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2022 All that machinery can often misfire, elevating stories that don’t deserve such treatment. — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022 And yet, the ads that misfire or even insult potential employees or customers are increasingly at risk of serving as an entry point to expose a company’s hypocrisy. — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022 Torreys have won 17 straight and are 13-0 at home La Jolla Country Day, the No. 2 seed in the Open Division of the state regional playoffs, picked a really bad night to misfire from the free-throw line. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2022 Being successful in business has often meant understanding what’s been successful throughout its history, but this can misfire. — Kimberly A. Whitler, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2022 Jackson drove them to the Cleveland 30-yard line only to misfire on another attempt to Andrews, this one settling into the arms of Browns safety Ronnie Harrison Jr. — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2021 But Gustavo Bou and Carles Gil missed open nets early, setting a tone as the Revolution continued to misfire to the end. — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun But the film was never able to recover — among Oscar voters — from being branded a box office misfire. — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022 That comes in the film’s opening scene, as the modest farmhouse that Irka shares her her husband Tolik (Sergey Shadrin) falls prey to a mortar misfire — decimating one exterior wall, and leaving the interior a wreckage site of dust and debris. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Jan. 2022 The researchers think this causes neurons in the insular cortex to misfire, reactivating an immunologic memory and triggering a misguided immune response. — Raleigh Mcelvery, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021 Russia’s missile attack Sunday on a Ukrainian training facility, just miles from the border of NATO member Poland, illustrated the risk that a misfire in Ukraine could force NATO to react. — Liz Sly And Emily Rauhala, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022 No ending with Best Picture (more on that grievous misfire in a bit). — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021 With one more misfire, the window for these Titans and the Super Bowl just got smaller. — Gentry Estes, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2022 That may be a welcome change for 49ers fans, who watched Garoppolo misfire on key throws in the team’s 3-point loss to the Titans last week. — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2021 But Zhao's willingness to play ball apparently cost the film her considerable talents as well: Eternals is an uncharacteristically sloppy misfire. — Jeva Lange, The Week, 5 Nov. 2021 See More

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