Example sentences for: debacle

How can you use “debacle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the first place, as impressive as Chrysler's comeback from the debacle of the late 1970s and from the disastrous later years of Lee Iacocca's reign was, the company is hardly the jewel of American manufacturing that last week's press accounts made it out to be.

  • One major attraction, however, is the excellent Museo Playa Girón, which serves as an emotional memorial to the three-day Bay of Pigs debacle.

  • Though he stayed on at the White House after that debacle, Magaziner hasn't been much heard from since, and his actual responsibilities have been something of a mystery.

  • Dudley Edwards said it was "preposterous" to blame the debacle on Trimble, who, defending himself in an op-ed article for the Times of London Friday, wrote that the Ulster Unionists have an undeserved reputation for saying "no."

  • In a column last week titled "Unfit for Home Rule," George Will labeled Washington a "debacle of democracy."


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