miss fire
Example Sentences
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The match might be a burned one, it might miss fire, or go out before he had an opportunity to kindle the leaves, or the leaves themselves might be too damp to burn.
From The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Howard Roger Garis
You don’t waste words, Wyllis, but you never miss fire.
From A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays by Willa Sibert Cather
“You reckon she’ll miss fire till he’s well again?”
From The Coming of the Law by Charles Alden Seltzer
Oh, shucks! the best gun'll miss fire once in a lifetime.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
Jack and his shipmates, in the meantime, were busily employed in re-sharpening their hangers, and looking to their pistols and ammunition, putting in fresh flints, and seeing that they were not likely to miss fire.
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston
