Collocations for fail - verb

dismally, miserably
I tried to cheer her up, but failed miserably.

spectacularly
She came up with several plans that failed spectacularly before finally achieving success.

never
That joke never fails.

cannot
The song can't fail to be a hit (= will definitely be a hit).

can hardly
be bound to, be destined to, be doomed to
an enterprise that was doomed to fail from the start

in
Doctors are failing in their duty if they do not warn their patients of the dangers.

try and fail
Others have tried and failed.

completely, totally
The authorities have totally failed to address this problem.

Fail is used with these nouns as the subject:
appeal, approach, attack, attempt, bid, brake, business, campaign, claim, company, crop, diplomacy, economy, effort, engine, enterprise, experiment, eyesight, firm, gamble, harvest, health, heart, initiative, light, manoeuvre, marriage, merger, mission, move, negotiation, nerve, plan, rebellion, referendum, reform, relationship, revolution, scheme, sight, signal, strategy, strength, system, tactic, talk, word

Fail is used with these nouns as the object:
A level, audition, class, course, exam, examination, final, inspection, physical, practical, subject, task, test