How To Use Misfire In A Sentence
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He concocts a pilot proposal so offensive, so bound to misfire with test audiences, it's sure to get him canned.
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If you roll a misfire for the bounce the cannon ball has stuck in the ground and does not bounce. 6.
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His attempt at a joke misfired.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We had a vibrating rear hub and a misfire in free practice, but cured those.
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The engine misfired several times.
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But in fact it was a rare misfire and the culprit cartridge was ejected.
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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.
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I did get a few misfires, so I believe a stronger mainspring or perhaps a longer firing pin or both would take care of this.
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One other advantage to this design is that you instanteously have access to two guns as each barrel and trigger is a somewhat a separate in event of a misfire at a most inconvienant and unentertaining moment.
Make Mine a Double
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The engine misfires, the body shudders to a halt.
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A roll of 1-2 was a misfire; 3-4 was a jager hunting in the woods; and a roll of 5-6 meant enemy forces were setting an ambush.
Archive 2008-09-01
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The gun misfired after one shot and jammed.
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The Oscars tend to try to go a little more outside the box — although that backfired when they went for the James Franco-Anne Hathaway pairing, where there was no chemistry and Franco's self-consciously post-modern/social media approach was a complete misfire.
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It did little other than cause the car to misfire as the temperature decrease seemed to crystallize the fuel.
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While certain initiatives have been considered successful, others have seriously misfired.
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Unfortunately their plan misfired badly.
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Had our intelligence people arrested this Pig prior to entering the aircraft, that would constitute a thwarted attempt, a misfire is a failed attempt that surpassed all safety and screening barriers.
White House: President notified of new flight scare
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None of those miserable HBO misfires or dour Showtime dramedies though I'm a fan of Nurse Jackie.
Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations
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I was worried that the plan might misfire.
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‘The engine misfired,’ one of them informed me after a moment.
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These are extremely dangerous because if reactivated by an amateur they can misfire or explode.
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But it's mostly misfired hackwork.
Times, Sunday Times
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Weapons jam and misfire and cannon will explode.
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Soldiers must know how to load, fire, clear and reduce stoppages and misfires on every crew-served weapon.
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Miranda has misfired because the police never believed in Miranda and developed ways to use it offensively, the lower courts and, eventually, the US Supreme Court have distinguished it to death, and you cannot keep a defendant quiet.
Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Miranda Rights
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The gun misfires twice and the man is apprehended.
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If the revolver had misfired, then it would certainly be consistent with that explanation.
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The only real misfire is the title track, in which Swift interrupts a wedding with a protestation of love for the groom ( "I am not the kind of girl who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion," she informs the gathering, somewhat awkwardly).
Album review: Taylor Swift, "Speak Now"
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This system can minimize the ignition advance , misfire and other hidden dangers.
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But guards last year found debris near the base fence from a Soviet-made surface-to-air missile that apparently misfired.
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His attempt at a joke misfired.
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I think one of the main problems with the current state of Muslim/American relations is that nobody gets the other side's symbols and when meanings misalign, messages misfire.
Dr. David Liepert: Muslims, The Quran And The Importance Of Understanding Symbols Of Faith
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Only one dessert - a pumpkin-meringue tart at war with itself - misfires.
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It misfired and hammered Boucher with 300 pounds of force.
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The voluntary partnership grew out of the misfired attempt to create a so-called business improvement district in a 30-block stretch of downtown.
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The system today provides Knock and Misfire Detection displayed to the Dyno operator.
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Whatever misfire is floating around in my brain, we do overcome it.
Word Blind
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Maybe it’s because I never saw much of her early work and focused too much on her mangled pronunciations in forgettable Hollywood misfires (Remember “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”?
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Her plans misfired, she was captured by Henry, and until his death in 1189 was kept in close confinement, carefully watched, in England.
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If you roll a misfire for the bounce the cannon ball has stuck in the ground and does not bounce. 6.
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The US military spent most of that day denying that it was their mistake, instead blaming the Iraqis, claiming that Iraqi artillery had misfired.
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The Jets again benefited from the unexpected when Kaeding misfired from 40 yards out in the fourth quarter, sending this boot past the right upright.
Jets' confidence flying high after shocking Chargers 17-14
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I think one of the main problems with the current state of Muslim/American relations is that nobody gets the other side s symbols and when meanings misalign, messages misfire.
Dr. David Liepert: Muslims, The Quran And The Importance Of Understanding Symbols Of Faith
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The man who operates the skull-puncher, which supposedly dazes the cow until it can bleed to death, gets weary, and near the end of his shift he often misses or misfires.
Have It Your Way
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The voluntary partnership grew out of the misfired attempt to create a so-called business improvement district in a 30-block stretch of downtown.
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Similarly bold plans have misfired elsewhere, most memorably with the U.S. firm Iridium, whose scheme to provide global satellite phone coverage failed spectacularly.
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Sometimes the "gobs" of glass misfire and fall on the 1 / 8″ steel platform.
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Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern.
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The ship, engulfed in flames, spiraled down into the smoking ruins of the base, and detonated as a Sidewinder misfired and exploded under the wing.
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Bookmakers also misfired on five of the 16 group-stage survivors, based on the pretournament odds they assigned to each team.
What We Learned in South Africa
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Mixture of air and gasoline vapor outside these limits may misfire.
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But his efforts misfired, causing huge inconvenience for many innocent users.
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Startled, Tobias misfired, and the arrow struck one of the stalactites that were barricading him in, rebounding off of it.
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With unperturbed dignity, he sat back in his bubble-top car to wipe his eyes, reddened by a whiff of misfired tear gas.
Staying Tuned
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Imagine the feeling when you engage the enemy and your weapon misfires or jams.
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Worse, there is also the danger that these potentially wayward missiles will misfire and kill innocent civilians.
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He said there might have been a bit of water in the fuel causing my engine to misfire when I started the car.
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Working on or near a misfire is the most hazardous of all blasting operations.
Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester
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My joy, such as it is, lies in the satisfaction that a carefully thought out plan has wonderfully misfired.
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Either that or he is just a gasbag who has some neurotic need to articulate every half baked misfired synapse that passes through his cerebral cortex.
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When your car misfires a number of times, it triggers a trouble code.
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These putative deals in scrap-iron were on a grand enough scale to keep my employer on a permanent high, but something always misfired and the deal would collapse.
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A dirty gun may misfire or malfunction at exactly the wrong time.
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After this dull, airless misfire, which is a failure on almost every level, it's no wonder that Craven again journeyed back into the Weinstein pit see or don't: Cursed for Scream 4.
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The scheme misfired, and instead it was de Burgh who edged des Roches from power.
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In the past, some attempts to fight fire with fire have misfired.
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Clare's songs are again a mix of favourite oldies and cracking originals, not a misfire among them, taking in pop, big band and samba but possessing a distinctive style.
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Four of his hit films have had sequels, and each one of the follow-ups has been a colossal misfire.
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His speech was a lamentable effort - nothing about it was convincing, from the hammy acting to the misfired soundbites.
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It turned out that even the best laid plans misfired.
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He must have had a misfire or failure to chamber a round because as he pressed the trigger, he shoved the rifle violently down, yanked his face away from the stock, and actually stumbled forward half a step.
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The voluntary partnership grew out of the misfired attempt to create a so-called business improvement district in a 30-block stretch of downtown.
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The guns misfired
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Her husband said the gunman had first attempted to shoot him, but the weapon had misfired.
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As of August, 2003, revenue was down 25% as expansion plans badly misfired.
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(Another misfire is when Darth learns of a tragedy and holds his arms out and yells “Noooooooo!!!” — and it sounds and looks so much like a parody, that it’s hard not to burst out laughing.)
Inkblurt · Blather about the movie, I will.
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Boland's Subaru lost time with a puncture while a heavy landing caused the car to misfire.
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But the salute, which started slightly late and with one cannon out of action after a round misfired, left him slightly disappointed.
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I’d add a potential misfire is that as others have noted, this bill should have been passed much much earlier.
Matthew Yglesias » The Road Not Taken
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I sincerely appreciate the offer of your police, but too many people may cause the plan to misfire.
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Giancarlo had a small problem in the fuel cell that caused fuel pressure drops and an engine misfire towards the end of each run.
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Yet against the Swedes, his ammunition again misfired.
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However admirable the hard work of those who have risked life and limb to give the Iraqi people a fresh start, the overall effort has misfired.
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After the San Diego Chargers famously misfired in the 1998 draft by picking Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf instead of Peyton Manning, the team fumbled and bumbled through six years without a winning season.
The Happiest Tribe in Sports
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But it has spectacularly misfired in France, where they simply do not do things that way.
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Martin's biggest bucket was a buzzer beater from the left corner that made it 115-110 with 1: 11 remaining, and Baron Davis, who led the Warriors with 28 points, misfired twice on 3-pointers in the final minute.
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It is just that his intentions totally misfire, or, as Greene put it: ‘I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.’
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But the salute, which started slightly late and with one cannon out of action after a round misfired, left him slightly disappointed.
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Not only do I think Holt misfires here, but my philosophic conscience is aroused by his readiness to explain historic error as the result of the besetting sin of verbalism, particularly by his hacking on poor old Aristotle.
A Psychological Issue
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Four times more depleted uranium shells than previously admitted have misfired and caused radioactive contamination at a military range in south-west Scotland.
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It was then that all the binding-spells were wrought, great and small -- from the Sigil of Darkness and other things like it which are utterly abominable to the mageborn, down to the little ones which make this or that thing na-aar -- metaphysically dead and impervious to magic -- like the pistols and crossbows of the Witchfinders, so that no mage can fox their aim or cause them to misfire, and such things as spell-cord and spancels.
The Silent Tower
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Because practitioners create safety locally, efforts to forestall errors by isolating practitioners from the system will misfire.
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In Saudi Arabia, it appeared the missiles misfired.
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Sadly they were understaffed, swamped by the number of calls they received, and the initiative misfired - raising expectations but failing to deliver on them.
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`Also, we have turned the orbital telescope onto the space station, and we see that the shuttle seems to have misfired.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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If you roll a misfire when you roll the first dice the cannon has literally misfired and may explode.
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It recognizes the tendency of human efforts to misfire; and from this it concludes that the grander the effort to remedy an injustice, the more one should assume it will probably make things worse.
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It's fair to say a few gags misfire, but the accumulative effect of so many genius lines is very forgiving, allowing the industrious Jones to weave in new gags all the time and constantly keeping his hilarious act fresh.