How to use "failed" in a sentence

Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated

The people of the United States have not failed

Marius failed to understand the trick, and made the mistake of doing so

This was why he had failed to recognize the two daughters when they had run into him on the street

'That's what you rich people call people like me, isn't it? Just because I've failed in business

It had failed after only three months

Of course, if the production was a flop, if it failed to please the audience, she might be back working the small lounges again, on her way down

The sulfur-yellow light from the street lamps failed to reach all the way across the lawn

Both kidneys failed virtually overnight

The Network badly wanted to eliminate everyone who might press for the exhumation of Danny Evans's body, and the agents targeted against Elliot Stryker and Christina Evans had thus far failed to carry out their orders to terminate the pair

She felt as if she had failed to pay her last respects to the deceased

Two of those hurriedly organized assassination attempts had failed

If he failed to stop Stryker and the Evans woman, his dream of assuming the director's chair in a few years would never become a reality.

And the heat hasn't failed either."

I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train

I began to feel that I had failed my wife, and decided to leave this dreamer of great things and to go on into London

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.