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Example sentences for: gaffe

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

Their latest gaffe was to spend a year prosecuting Clinton for lying about consensual adultery, while the Willey investigation remained offstage.
For dessert she has gâteau and a sorbet and he has marrons glacés, though, as he is rather guache, he commits a gaffe by eating them with his fingers and then spills most of them on his serviette.
These are good examples of a chronic newspaper gaffe: the uncontextual stat.
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.
My boss, Michael Kinsley, defines a "gaffe" as a politician accidentally saying something truthful.