Want to use Failed correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like failing or unsuccessful.
Failed meaning
simple past and past participle of fail
Synonyms of Failed
Example sentences (20)
A 2015 indictment ultimately ended in a mistrial in 2018 after a jury failed to reach a verdict on all counts.
Adelaide battled errors and failed to match Collingwood’s speed until the final quarter where they got within two goals.
A 20-day old boy has died in Rome after a failed home ritual circumcision attempt, police have revealed.
A dad-of-two suffering from a brain tumour has been forced to with his family after his local council failed to find him a home.
A 2024 campaign speech by Ron DeSantis in New Hampshire was interrupted by a woman who claimed the Florida Governor's office failed.
Across the factory, another worker had failed to see Marcos crouched with his left arm deep inside the assembly line and turned it on.
But Mr Bass said the MOD failed to provide antibiotics to cure the infection when intravenous antibiotics failed.
His proposed move to United Arab Emirates side Baniyas failed after the two parties failed to reach an agreement.
About 8,000 Wagner troops are said to be stationed at camps in Belarus, having followed Prigozhin there after his failed uprising in June.
A coach then told them it had been put there as a test - and they'd failed, Phoebe said.
They failed to produce any code of conduct for MP’s but now in 2023 are complaining again about something they failed to do.
I have had couples of failed relationships, in fact, a failed relationship made me realise my talent.
About 70% of our high bills has nothing to do with CMP or this failed referendum.
Every effort by the Flash Family to thwart him has either failed, or failed to hold any permanence.
She said it had “failed” since being installed in 2022 – and that this system set up to encourage political plurality had failed too.
While his physical body failed LeBron’s leadership, LeBron’s leadership also failed the roster.
According to planning documents, plans to make the site an “official” public open space have failed to materialise – making it a candidate for development.
Having failed to reconcile and put their house in order, their party failed to retain power.
Of course there’s a use case for Windows Arm, though RT failed massively in 2012 and Windows Arm failed with the Surface X in 2019 as well.
According to police, the truck rammed into the Force Trax Cruiser — a multi-utility vehicle (MUV) capable of seating up to 13 people — after its brakes failed.
Phrases with failed
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Common combinations with failed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- failed to 167×
- and failed 22×
- has failed 22×
- had failed 15×
- have failed 15×
- he failed 13×
- failed attempts 8×
- they failed 7×
- the failed 7×
- also failed 6×
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