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Example sentences for "total failure"

  • Raspberries and strawberries were a good crop and of exceptional fine quality, but the currants and gooseberries were a total failure in my garden as well as elsewhere, according to all reports received.

  • Strawberries and raspberries were a good crop this year, but all other fruit was a total failure on account of the killing frost and snowstorm on May 18th.

  • Mr. Bjornberg, of Willmar, reports the Surprise plum a full crop, others a total failure.

  • Chapman's had been removed from the Heaton tram-way in 1812, and was regarded as a total failure.

  • The engine had been fruitlessly pumping for nearly twelve months, and came to be regarded as a total failure.

  • After all, if the risk was great, the prize was great also, and the only alternative was to submit to total failure.

  • Napoleon's Egyptian expedition is no real exception: it reached its destination, but the battle of the Nile rendered it a total failure.

  • The condition of pulverization had led in some cases to a total failure to detect any nucleus in the living animal, and it was only by the use of reagents that the actual state of the case was revealed.

  • They admitted the favorable circumstances which surrounded its commencement; the intelligence, devotion, and earnestness which were brought to the cause by its projectors; and its final, total failure.

  • The probability now is, that corn will be almost a total failure.

  • Macdonald ends the story in his usual sombre style as follows: "This experiment was a total failure.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "total failure" 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:
    been discovered; both sections; brave soldiers; criminal causes; little lime; seven weeks; solar heat; song somewhere; total abstainer; total abstinence; total area; total darkness; total eclipse; total employment; total failure; total ignorance; total length; total population; total prohibition; total value; total vote; total wreck; totally depraved; totally different; what doth; would burst