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.
• But this was risky; there was a high failure rate.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
• One failure shouldn’t risk lives.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• This was not a failure of the system.
  — Joseph Andrew, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
• That failure to would be a crime under state law.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
• In the end, even failure may serve a purpose.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
• A bit of failure, a bit of success.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
• But the egregious failures do not end there.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
• But jealousy is not a moral failure.
  — Meehika Barua, Time, 29 May 2026
• These steps are not just about avoiding failures.
  — Gopinath Kathiresan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• But the real failure was the gear.
  — Marisa McMillan, Outside, 27 Feb. 2026
• This is why tailorism was a failure.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
• But failure for him isn't an option.
  — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• It’s filled with hard work, failures and plenty of lessons learned.
  — Medhat Zaki, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• That’s not a failure of parents.
  — Donna A. Gaffney, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
• And that’s not a failure either.
  — Farnoosh Torabi, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
• At the time Rebekah felt like a failure.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 8 Apr. 2026
• The failure forced Huang to lay off nearly half of his staff.
  — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
• The blood of Jesus is stronger than failure.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
• So the war stands as a strategic failure and a moral calamity.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
• The failure mode is not that a good pro forma ignores these items.
  — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• One was a child who came in nearly five months ago with liver failure.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2022