Example sentences for: gaffe

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

  • 1, is what made it genuinely troubling, a legitimate gaffe.

  • Such a gaffe would have been mind-boggling from the author of Who the Bells Tolled For ...

  • He was the fellow who declared in 1980 that America's intervention in Vietnam was a "noble cause"--and the press trumpeted the comment as a gaffe.

  • This was a controversial innovation during the Cold War, when a "live" gaffe might spark an international incident.

  • A cynical part of me wants to believe that one of every two viewers tuned in hoping to see a gaffe, but not even the now-famous pop quiz--the You're No Jack Kennedy of the 2000 campaign--has slowed the juggernaut.


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