He tried to make out what had happened, and how, but failed completely.

He tried to read in them what she was thinking, and failed completely.

"They have failed completely to answer the points raised by the defense."

Something he'd completely failed to do up to that point, I have to say.

After a trial of about two years both failed completely.

In short, the island government failed completely according to the report.

It took two days to set up and the first take completely failed.

I'll even try to make my story more interesting than what's been reported, so it won't look like you completely failed.

Then, as the night went on, power failed completely in one block after another.

Very good; she had failed completely to recognize him, though not six feet away.