How to Use fiasco in a Sentence

fiasco

noun

• The move is the latest in a fiasco now a decade in the making.
  — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Man, there has to be a Buck Owens song for this fiasco.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• The Vikings are due to bounce back after last week’s fiasco.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2022
• The fiasco led to a U.S. Senate hearing, and a lawsuit brought by Swift's fans.
  — Maryalice Parks, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2023
• That’s what this summer-long fiasco has become for a lot of folks around here.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• The worst: an end zone theft, for the first of his four-interception fiasco Christmas night against the Ravens.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2024
• As fury grew among legions of hardcore Swifties, Swift herself weighed in on the fiasco.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Bruins have hired an outside firm to review their missteps in the Mitchell Miller fiasco.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• By all accounts, the architect of the fiasco, Stephen Miller, remains in Trump’s good graces.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• The country’s arrival on the global sports stage was supposed to be the 2006 Asian Games—except the event turned into a fiasco.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
• But CZ and Binance could have been even bigger winners from the fiasco.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Buttiegieg is taking heat from both sides of the political aisle over the fiasco.
  — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2022
• Cook isn’t convinced that reporters have learned much from the Holmes-Fortune fiasco.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
• This whole fiasco has been a complete failure of most of the controls and protections Google has in place in Android.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
• Russian commanders, meanwhile, have learned from their fiasco in the north of Ukraine.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• This turned into an hour-long fiasco that caused Moulton to miss his flight—and lose both canisters.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2015
• Christopher Murray, 30, was one customer caught up in the fiasco.
  — Isabella Kwai, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Brewers, trying to make up for the Josh Hader trade that turned into a fiasco, did make some slight improvements.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• The prime example would be the Antonio Brown fiasco in 2019.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Not since the American invasion of Iraq has there been such clarity about the fiasco to come.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2023
• Its shares have fallen slightly since the travel fiasco, even as the broader market has gained.
  — Mary Schlangenstein, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• While the rest of the press has sought to move on from the journalistic fiasco, the British broadcaster and Gray Lady have charted a different course.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• Monday’s fiasco in Toronto had more to do with the Raptors’ defense than anything else.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 29 Nov. 2022
• Even better, tickets are a fair amount cheaper than those sold for the Glasgow fiasco — and there’s even a discount for children brave enough to face The Unknown.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• The fiasco over Messi’s no-show in Hong Kong has cost the match’s organizers millions of dollars.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 20 Feb. 2024
• On that front, maybe the Taylor fiasco is already having an impact.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
• The federal government had to spend a lot of money to cover that fiasco.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• What remains is the puzzle of how such an epically self-destructive fiasco could have happened in the first place.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But Musk, according to his tweet, did become aware of the fiasco that had embroiled both his electric vehicle company and the San Jose bakery.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Looking at the bigger picture, the fiasco raises questions about decision-making, not only in the news division, but at NBCU overall.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024