Examples of success in a Sentence. 1  An enormous popular and critical success, The Liars' Club was credited with (or blamed for) launching a new wave of memoir-writing. 2  Fred tries to keep up his end of the conversation, but without much success; he has never grown bulbs, cooked veal, seen a film by Fassbinder, etc. He feels provincial and out of it … —Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs, 2006