Example sentences for: debacle

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

  • The editorial calls our failure to bomb Iraq "perhaps the greatest debacle for American foreign policy since the end of the cold war."

  • 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 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.

  • In their book, Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood , Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters outline the colossal arrogance, excess, and self-delusion that led to the debacle.

  • --some other anonymous GOP aide , determining who caused this election debacle: Newt Gingrich


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