fall short

VERB
  1. fail to meet (expectations or standards)
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How To Use fall short In A Sentence

  • Because of this, investigations inadvertently fall short of conveying the underlying epistemological rationale for ngoma persistence and transformation over time. 123 Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
  • A computer with an exposed unearthed metal chassis would fall short of the expectation of safety.
  • I judge most magazines pretty harshly, and arrogantly avoid those that fall short of what I consider mind-expanding reading.
  • Every attempt to capture an image on film or on disk will ultimately fall short.
  • The main thing is, you don't ever want to fall short of 10 reps at this stage.
  • A judge sitting without a jury would fall short of his duty if he did not first find the facts and then draw from them the inference of fact whether or not the defendant had been negligent.
  • You may be a brilliant developer, a highly skilled net admin, or a crackerjack DBA — but if you’re unprofessional, your career is likely to fall short.
  • Like Dionysios, John Damascene understood that our ideas and concepts of God fall short of him and that, in the end, we honor God most appropriately by the silent denial of our concepts in apophatic theology.
  • But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.
  • You may be a brilliant developer, a highly skilled net admin, or a crackerjack DBA — but if you’re unprofessional, your career is likely to fall short.
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