Failed
Operated
Both words in one sentence
- The doors were electrically operated and too heavy to open by hand if the motors failed, so a dead battery meant the only way to get out of the car was to climb out through the rear hatch.
Source: The Alleged Car / Real Life -
Yet there is one more connection between the doctors; a certain failed operation comes back to haunt them.But if there were ten plagues, and only nine people operated on Victoria... then for whom is the Plague of Darkness intended?
Source: Film / The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Rock Opera: "Babbacombe Lee" tells in a folk-ballad style the true story of John "Babbacombe" Lee, sentenced to hang for the murder of his employer but released after the gallows failed to operated three times in succession.
Source: Music / Fairport Convention
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