Failings in the committee's oversight led to repeated safety lapses.

Failing accepted the award with a quiet nod, surprising those who had expected a more dramatic speech.

I'll try to catch the 5:00 train, failing that, I'll take a taxi.

Despite his many setbacks, he managed to fail upwards and become the company's COO within five years.

The shepherd leaned against the old fail dyke and watched his flock.

After the storm, the engineers inspected several fail dykes that had allowed the river to flood the fields.

At the men's audition, some whispered that she would male-fail, but her confidence silenced them.

As a trans man, he feared he would female-fail at his high school reunion, where old classmates still remembered him as female.

During the outage, programmers joked that the site was overrun by fail whales.

When the site crashed, the fail whale appeared, reminding users of Twitter's fleeting outages.