Fail to meet (expectations or standards)
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Examples for "come short"
Examples for "come short"
1Where these laws come short others should be enacted to supplement them.
2She, who had never complained, should of a surety not come short!
3The keen air oppressed his chest, making his breath come short.
4They prefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
5Nor would the blessed antitype come short of the type.
1Without these changes, dementia care is likely to continue to fall short.
2Existing approaches for targeting individual neurons, however, fall short of these requirements.
3If we fall short, we fall short, if we don't then great.
4It probably did not fall short of 50 in killed and wounded.
5With 42 percent the two parties would fall short of a majority.
6Manufacturing, retail, wholesale, motor trade and building all fall short of this.
7It is widely recognised that rehabilitation places fall short of the demand.
8Even when our endeavours and attitudes are well meant we fall short.
9The deaths usually fall short of the births by about four thousand.
10Stoke carved out numerous chances only to fall short with their finishing.
11It is only human to fall short of this now and then.
12Where they fall short, they can be inspected by Ofsted and exposed.
13His heart lurched as he realized in mid-leap that he'd fall short.
14So the curs got a glimpse of glory, only to fall short.
15His eagerness to learn will never fall short of your's to teach.
16Wherein I fall short of your expectation, I fail for truth's sake.
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