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Example sentences for "fell short"

  • This book serves to show how far those who wrote with some eloquence, as Strada certainly did, fell short of classical purity.

  • Almost all the many thousands of the children of Israel in their generation, fell short of perseverance when they walked from Egypt towards the land of Canaan.

  • But the special objection to the proposed Amendment was not that it “fell short,” but that it was bad in itself.

  • It evidently sprang from a previous syndyasmian family as its immediate germ; and while improving with human progress it fell short of its true ideal in the classical period.

  • It was for the sufficient reason that it fell short of monogamy, the coming power able to dissolve the fabric.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fell short" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apply the; brisk oven; cups water; drew himself; fell ance; fell asleep; fell back; fell dead; fell into; fell short; fell sick; fellow citizens; fellow countrymen; fellow like; fellow prisoners; fellow soldiers; fierce battle; know thee; lobster salad; navigable river; save the; sheet iron; shell hole; this village; three friends; true copy