FAILURE in a Sentence

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For FAILURE, below is one of 202 sentences:
Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had experienced at my first attempt.

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 Meanings and Examples of FAILURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
failure
 n.  an unexpected omission
 n.  a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  Prissy went off at a trot, the letter gripped in her hand, and Scarlett went back upstairs, trying to think of some plausible lie to explain Mrs. Elsing's failure to appear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  To be poor seemed to her such a confession of failure that it amounted to disgrace; and she detected a note of condescension in the friendliest advances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  Lily's passing light-heartedness sank beneath a renewed sense of failure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5  She read their incredulity in their averted looks, and in the mute wretchedness of the men behind them, and for a miserable half-second he thought she quivered on the brink of failure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
6  She saw, too, in the same uncompromising light, the train of consequences resulting from that failure; and these became clearer to her with every day of her weary lingering in town.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
7  Gerty had tried to veil her failure in tender ambiguities; but Carry, always the soul of candour, put the case squarely to her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
8  She tried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow over the boosting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  The vessels were to be launched in the July of that year, and in failure thereof, Mr. Gardner was to lose a considerable sum; so that when I entered, all was hurry.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  The ground for his refusal was a failure on my part, one Saturday night, to pay him for my week's time.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  This failure was occasioned by my attending a camp meeting about ten miles from Baltimore.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had experienced at my first attempt.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  His failure to discover any mite of resemblance in their viewpoints made him more miserable than before.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
16  Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
17  Every failure one meets with adds to one's experience.
18  If you are doing your best,you will not have to worry about failure.
19  If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
20  Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
21  The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
22  Attempt doesn't necessarily bring success, but giving up definitely leads to failure.
23  The hospital has a backup generator in case there is a power failure.
24  Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure.
25  The probable cause of death was heart failure.
26  This failure leaves the child depressed and frustrated.
27  Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
28  It soon became clear that the programme was a failure.
29  The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
30  You make the failure complete when you stop strying.