His policy had proved a complete failure, as far as supporting the Shogun against the Mikado was concerned.
The official declaration made the day before by the Kioto envoy had quite thrown him on his beam-ends, and he could not bear to stand by and see his policy turn out a complete failure.
So far the stern test of war as applied to the science of aeronautics has emphasised the fact that as a naval unit the dirigible is a complete failure.
By operating upon these lines there is very little likelihood of the mission proving a complete failure.
Repulse of Lomakine and the Russians=] The first effort to subdue the Akhal warriors proved a complete failure.
We shall say nothing more concerning this expedition than that the attempt to take the fort by storm proved a complete failure, and the Russians were forced to retreat in disorder.
This desperate and foolish enterprise proved a complete failure.
The Port Essington experiment I am afraid is to be regarded as a complete failure.
This great scene was a complete failure, in spite of the fact that it was entrusted to so great an actress as Schroder-Devrient, and a singer so unusually gifted as Tichatschek.
In my opinion this theory of his was a complete failure, as his only successful pieces were those in which popular interest was excited by catch-phrases.
This word is used in some American colleges to denote a complete failure in recitation.
A complete failure; a declaration that one is not prepared to recite.
In college parlance, one who makes a complete failureat recitation; one who flunks.
The graduated scale was a complete failure, and equally injurious to the purchaser and consumer.
Lord Malmesbury's mission was in fact a complete failure.
The attempt to take it was a complete failure: the British were obliged to retreat with loss.
Although the principal part was sung by Jenny Lind, the work was a complete failure, and was pronounced by the critic Chorley to be the worst opera ever produced in England.
For a whole year she had been living in a false atmosphere of contentment; she had deluded herself into the belief that she was superior to convention and human nature combined, and she had ended in proving herself a complete failure.
As it is, my engagement has proved a complete failure.
There is nothing great reserved for me; I am just a complete failure, and that is the end of all my ambition and all my conceit.
The Mission, it is said, has been "a complete failure.
Some of the lower parts were cleared by Captain Graham and myself without the slightest difficulty, and much to His Majesty's amazement; but every attempt on the part of the Amhara to follow our example proved a complete failure.
It will be for the next generation to determine whether or not the mission was "a complete failure.
But the dense woods, filled with sharp shooters, through which the troops were compelled to force their way, rendered the movement a complete failure.
Some districts reported a complete failure, a most unusual condition.
I have never known any of these trees to be a complete failure unless it would be this year due to the drought which has been pretty severe with us.
We have had no garden to speak of and the crops in this section have almost been a complete failure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complete failure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
