Misfire used in a sentence

Misfire in a sentence as a noun

Listening to Google tick over to catch the misfire.

They didn't miss the Internet, but they did misfire on music.

It could be anything from a knock or misfire in the engine to sensor failure.

Hazard to the airplane caused by a misfire of the eject mechanism?

A link-bait post with the headline "snowden arrested" and "...in my dreams" as a subheading would cause a misfire, wouldn't it?

I'm guessing that, since you are such an expert of using the keyboard that you apparently never misfire, perhaps you ought to roll without auto-correct?

Misfire in a sentence as a verb

These mechanisms are notoriously opaque and when they misfire, they do so spectacularly.

It doesn't need to have conferred advantage on anybody in the past - it could just be our incredibly complex social behaviors having a tendency to misfire in some circumstances.

Orkut, however, is a rare misfire for the survival model: because Orkut is so old and almost everything from that bygone era of Google has survived indefinitely, it gave Orkut a 95% chance of surviving to 2018.

A very understandable misfire by FB's porn detection algorithms, considering the unintentionally saucy text submitted with those cute photos of Nut the cat: "...Here you can see in more detail how Nut presses her face as hard as she can into mine.

You would need to do a long run study on the subject to verify it is the case, but from my intuition and the number of gun misfire cases I hear about, it would probably mathematically prove to have a recognizable increase in the rate of injury due to the firearm in public if it is loaded.