fail in something

Have you failed in any way to make the case to the American public?

The company failed for a third and final time in 1938.

Perhaps his heart might have failed him in the dark days to come had he not been so.

It had never failed her, not in any part of the world.

He had failed her in other ways, but not this time.

It was the first time he'd failed with her in bed.

"It might have been the first time he ever failed at anything in the Army."

He had never failed in a mission, no matter how difficult.

People don't want others to know they have failed in the American dream.

He had failed in such a business once before; but that was long ago.