Failure means: State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success. Related words include success or portion. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Failure in practice.

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Failure in a sentence

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Failure meaning

  1. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
  2. A condition in which a specified organ does not function well enough to support life.

Synonyms of Failure

success portion circumstances lot luck fate destiny fortune natural event occurrent occurrence happening nonachievement nonaccomplishment loser

Failure in Dutch

mislukking faling fout

Example sentences (20)

The Change Failure Rate measures the percentage of changes made to the code due to an incident or production failure.

Also, the rubber bushing may perish over time leading to its failure under loads below its designed failure load.

The driver was cited for DUI, failure to have insurance ID in his possession and failure to remain within a single lane.

This shower is certainly Love Minus Zero – “there’s no success like failure and failure’s no success at all”.

Enforcement action was also taken on failure to have ATV safety and failure to display valid registration on boats and ATVs.

What we need to recognise is that when the government intervenes, the trade-off is between market failure and state failure.

Someone who is bold enough to see failure and turn it into success, not someone who will see failure and blame others for it.

Failure to move sufficient blood can result in failure in other organs and may result in death if severe.

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Messages from teachers that focus on failure are known as “fear appeals”: they can create a strong fear of failure in students.

Failure to Stop and Render Aid-Serious Bodily Injury and Failure to Stop and Render Aid-Bodily Injury.

Congestive heart failure heart failure caused by loss of pumping power by the heart, resulting in fluids collecting in the body.

Failure modes with identical effects can be combined and summarized in a Failure Mode Effects Summary.

Failure to get into government in Ireland is equated with a failure to make progress on Irish unity.

But this was no intelligence failure but a very bad organization, logistics and leadership failure.

The sort of marginalization the Igbo lament loudly about today comes from failure of Igbo politicians and failure of Igbo politics.

Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic leading to chronic heart failure pathology.

Kayla Pooler, 24, of Burnham, was summoned for failure to display current inspection and failure to produce insurance by S. Butler.

The drivers' claims included failure to pay wages and overtime, failure to keep records, breach of contract, fraud, and conspiracy.

Although failure of the reaction chamber is possible, simply stopping fuel delivery would prevent any sort of catastrophic failure.

Common modes of failure in solid rocket motors include fracture of the grain, failure of case bonding, and air pockets in the grain.

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These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:

Common combinations with failure

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

  • failure to 89×
  • failure of 46×
  • the failure 33×
  • and failure 25×
  • failure and 25×
  • heart failure 21×
  • failure in 14×
  • failure is 12×
  • of failure 12×
  • for failure 10×

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "failure" in a sentence?
An example: "The Change Failure Rate measures the percentage of changes made to the code due to an incident or production failure." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "failure" from real English texts.
What does "failure" mean?
Failure means: State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
What are synonyms of "failure"?
Common synonyms of "failure" include: success, portion, circumstances, lot, luck, fate, destiny, fortune. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "failure" in Dutch?
"failure" translates to Dutch as: mislukking, faling, fout.
How many example sentences with "failure" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "failure", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

About these examples

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