failure
Example Sentences
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These can include muscle pain and weakness, and in rare situations, a dangerous breakdown of muscle tissue that can lead to kidney failure.
From Science Daily
To cook the same thing repeatedly — to rely on a short list of meals that work — can begin to feel like a failure of imagination, or worse, a failure of love.
From Salon
Attempting to avert financial failure, the private water company’s board now plans to start charging people a new “fire recovery fee” of about $3,000 over the next five years, or about $50 a month.
From Los Angeles Times
She tried her best to grin; it was a failure.
From Literature
Add that to the nights of failure in Hut 6.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
