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Example sentences for "unsuccessful"

Lexicographically close words:
unstrung; unstudied; unsubdued; unsubstantial; unsubstantiated; unsuccessfully; unsufferable; unsuggestive; unsuitability; unsuitable
  1. An unsuccessful plantation at Swan River in West Australia may also be noted.

  2. And the central body, after attempting a few unsuccessful exploring expeditions, practically resolved itself into the organ of King Leopold himself, and aimed at creating a neutral state in Central Africa under his protection.

  3. But he is unsuccessful in showing that, on the principles on which he starts, there can be any reality in the finite at all.

  4. Entering the army as sub-lieutenant he took a secret but active part in the unsuccessful conspiracy of Belfort.

  5. The result was an unsuccessful insurrection at Corduba.

  6. Syracuse, who, after unsuccessful attempts, finally acquired possession of it by treachery about 397 B.

  7. Her attempt to found a female normal school was unsuccessful at the time, owing to the inadequate previous education of the women, but afterwards such colleges were founded by government.

  8. Passing over three weeks we come to the last great, but unsuccessful attack on the Vascello.

  9. The enemy were discouraged by their unsuccessful attempt, which prevented them from making any decisive attack, and all their operations were reduced to a cannonade.

  10. We've had one unsuccessful marriage in our family of late.

  11. There seems to be no such thing as an unsuccessful operation.

  12. Nor does a statute providing for the recovery of reasonable attorney's fees in actions on small claims subject unsuccessful defendants to any unconstitutional deprivation.

  13. A man must have been an unsuccessful artist; he must have starved on the streets of Paris; he must have been yoked to a commercial force like Pinkerton, before he can conceive the longings that at times assailed me.

  14. So again, speaking of Laud and Strafford, he implies that if they were unsuccessful tyrants, they were no tyrants at all.

  15. Lord Salisbury was unsuccessful in persuading his party to throw out the Irish Arrears Bill in the House of Lords.

  16. Mr. Gladstone was an unsuccessful candidate for South-West Lancashire in 1868.

  17. Not long back Bruant was an unsuccessful candidate for deputy at Belleville, which adjoins Montmartre.

  18. As a last resort, the beadle was despatched through the snow, to a neighboring glen in the hope of getting a supply; but became back as unsuccessful as he went.

  19. The unsuccessful rebel or patriot, call him what you will, has far more friends among those yet unborn than among his own contemporaries, above all in the actual hour of his failure.

  20. An unsuccessful act too, for the poor fellow had broken down.

  21. He has been wholly unsuccessful at the bar; he lives in London lodgings, and I cannot conceive how he employs his time.

  22. It is probable that I should have been unsuccessful in the attempt now made, had I not been working on one with whom I was already familiar, and who was partially under my sway.

  23. Three years later an unsuccessful attempt to secure such a law was made in New York.

  24. The writer points out that eastern ministers have often been unsuccessful and eastern immigrants unpopular, because they have underrated the people of the West, among whom there are many people of culture.

  25. The Duke of Belluno, notwithstanding the valour of his troops, was unsuccessful at Chiclana; and from that day the French army could not make head against the combined forces of England and Portugal.

  26. As for Jerome, he returned to Cassel quite disheartened at the unsuccessful issue of his loan.

  27. He therefore availed himself of the first opportunity to state frankly that he had gone to the polar seas to discover if possible the secret of his birth, and of the shipwreck of the "Cynthia," that he had been unsuccessful in doing so.

  28. Erik could not repress a sigh and a presentiment that it would be unsuccessful as he read it.

  29. On the delta, between the waters, we made out a band of hunters, three of them, tarrying after an unsuccessful chase.

  30. Yejiro and I made as many unsuccessful applications together as I could stand.

  31. They now lighted torches of pine wood, and proceeded to the gloomy forest of pines, but were wholly unsuccessful in the search.

  32. I had met him at the foot of the steps as I came home from my unsuccessful search for employment, and he had handed me the letter, simply saying: "For Miss Reynolds.

  33. I was not as unsuccessful in this attempt as one might anticipate.

  34. An unsuccessful diplomatist, his chief services in arms were the butchery in the north after the Pilgrimage of Grace and the raid into Scotland which ended with the rout of Solway Moss.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsuccessful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    unsuccessful attack; unsuccessful attempt