Fail
Fail verb - To stop functioning.
Rises
Both words in one sentence
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Nothing Is Scarier: If you fail to punch Jubileus into the sun, instead hitting a planet, she rises up, smirks at you, then yells as she rushes the camera, and you are immediately taken to the death screen.
Source: Video Game / Bayonetta -
Near the end of the first volume, Leetah and Cutter try one more time to reconcile but fail (narration: "Once more a wall of anger rises between them").
Source: Slap-Slap-Kiss -
If you fail to cut the lines before it rises high enough for you to be electrocuted, the strings intensify as you flounder about helplessly.
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