How to Use faux pas in a Sentence

faux pas

noun

• Arriving too early would be a serious faux pas.
• In the years Emily has iconically been in Paris, she’s made a few faux pas.
  — Lucy Ford, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
• Although the crunchy earth might be tempting to trek over, like stomping through a pile of crisp autumn leaves, that’s a major faux pas: Biocrust can take decades to regenerate.
  — Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
• Stick to the Dress Code Run your outfit past the bride and groom to avoid any fashion faux pas.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• Don’t commit any of these faux pas on your next night out.
  — Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
• This is a social media faux pas that a lot of brands are guilty of.
  — Jim Tobin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Commenters rejoiced that the Palace didn't try to hide Meghan's dress as a faux pas.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Oct. 2018
• But what about the customer faux pas that might put a wine merchant off?
  — Lettie Teague, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Bold Whites Some people think that wearing white this late in the year is a faux pas.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• And treating a fashion faux pas as a racial affront isn’t a good look for the rest of us.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Thought that tights and sandals were a fashion faux pas?
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2018
• Below are some of the most prevalent website faux pas and how to avoid them.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• As seen in photos from the glam gala, the crown princess was quick to catch the faux pas and switched her navy sash to her right shoulder.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Kennedy was also accomplished in the twin arts of the faux pas and the breach of protocol.
  — David M. Shribman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Fanny packs went out of style years ago and were even mocked as a fashion faux pas.
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2021
• To be fair to Pulisic, his slide game had been on fire before his midweek faux pas.
  — Avi Creditor, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Looks like a fashion faux pas has never looked so good.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2018
• Just ensure the shorts aren’t longer than the actual dress to avoid a fashion faux pas.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
• With this dress, Markle may have looked to the royal for inspo—sans fashion faux pas.
  — Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 5 July 2018
• Brown responded from that free throw faux pas with 14 points in the second half and just one turnover.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022
• The only other faux pas was the turn signal stalk, which has a wiper button on its end.
  — Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
• What’s the etiquette for a gifting faux pas — in a pandemic?
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The faux pas would be forgetting that little black bow tie.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• And the most common faux pas in the mulch world falls in the category of quantity.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2021
• The stars of Blockers are happy to leave their biggest fashion faux pas back in high school.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• This period, the result of a diplomatic faux pas, is known as the Quasi War.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
• In the United States, it would be considered a social faux pas.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2020
• Still, a stamp ejecting Taiwan from the national boundaries was a faux pas even for the 60s.
  — Ilaria Maria Sala, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2019
• My biggest faux pas here was my first and last attempt at some April Fool’s humor back in 2014.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Twitter users were quick to call out Biden on the apparent fashion faux pas.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024