misfire

How To Use misfire In A Sentence

• He concocts a pilot proposal so offensive, so bound to misfire with test audiences, it's sure to get him canned.
• If you roll a misfire for the bounce the cannon ball has stuck in the ground and does not bounce. 6.
• His attempt at a joke misfired.
• I might add that in my lot of 1936 era ammunition, most of the primers have gone bad so be careful if your experience a misfire or hang fire when using old military stores.
• The actual cause is a mystery, but new brain-scanning techniques suggest that migraines happen because brain cells misfire then shut down, causing the arteries on that side of the brain to contract rapidly and cause pain.
• It could have been an even better result had they not lost time on the first loop of stages with a misfire, which was cured at first service.
• We had a vibrating rear hub and a misfire in free practice, but cured those.
• The engine misfired several times.
• But in fact it was a rare misfire and the culprit cartridge was ejected.
• Mr Fell consulted coroners around Britain and has been told of another death in Liverpool, last year, where it is claimed that a staple gun misfired.