Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: failing
IPA transcription: [f'eɪlɪŋ]
Pronunciations of failing
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: failing
    Meaning: below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"
Usage examples
  • I run great risk of failing.
  • It is a failing common to mankind, whose views are tinged by prejudices.
  • These natural and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them?
  • Nay, it may even reduce it to nothing, without nature thereby failing of her purpose.
  • That's Antonia's failing, you know; if she once likes people, she won't hear anything against them."
  • Instantly Laura lifted his head and in a failing voice he said, while something of the old light shone in his eyes:
  • Flint's nerve was failing him, for here was confirmation of the general's theory, but there was worse to come and more of it.
  • A great number of fine and capable persons must be failing to develop, failing to tell, under the shadow of this too prepotent monarchy.
  • The failing airplane industry became the space combine overnight, and nobody kept track of how big it was, except a few sharp operators.
  • But Konstantin Levin wanted to justify himself for the failing, of which he was conscious, of lack of zeal for the public welfare, and he went on.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Winston Churchill, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The World Without Us, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Metal umlaut, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jane Cobden, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Second Malaysia Plan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Functional programming, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sigi Schmid, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hockey Hall of Fame, License CC BY-SA 4.0