"fail" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The only high-end console that plays a range of games over the Internet is Sega's famously failed Dreamcast, which is no longer being manufactured.
- Despite the reputation of the Beetle showbag for ubiquity, comedian Rove McManus famously failed to find one when he visited the Royal Adelaide Show in 2001.
- And Mr. Hogg's Isabella remains ramrod-stiff and standoffish almost through to the play's last scene, in which she famously fails to respond to the duke's twice-tendered offer of marriage.
- Ruskin, to his misfortune, famously failed to grasp the value of the work of the American-born Whistler, regarding him as a dabbling provocateur.
- In the UK, the pairing famously failed to reach No. 1 in the singles charts, stalling one place below Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me".
- Samuel Barber's opera "Antony and Cleopatra" failed famously at its premiere in 1966, which inaugurated the new Lincoln Center home of the Metropolitan Opera.
- Apple Computer failed famously with its Newton handheld.
- Chanda detached 4,000 of his siege force in an attempt to recover Arcot; this attempt famously failed, propelling Clive into a more prominent role in India.
- He famously failed in an attempt to win seven Commonwealth golds and the standard in Manchester wasn't quite the same as it is here in Beijing.
- He was the hangman who famously failed to hang John Babbacombe Lee - "The Man They Couldn't Hang" - in 1885.
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