Example sentences for: snafu

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

  • Then there's pseudonym , (false name), eponym (named for a person, e.g., sandwich after Lord Sandwich), and acronym (formed from the initial letters or syllables of a group of words, e.g., snafu meaning Situation Normal; All Fouled Up or laser meaning Light Amplification Stimulated Emissions Radiation).

  • Isaac Benjamin became ensnared in a bureaucratic snafu that took away his Social Security disability payments for more than two years.

  • And there were a number of outfits —companies, battalions, and at least one regiment—that claimed snafu was coined solely in-house, to the point that the division newspaper once actually tried to authenticate the origin, precipitating a near riot.

  • Curious among the many curiosities in this entertaining work: the World War II coinage snafu gets only two and a half pages.

  • In modern Hebrew, mess, foulup, snafu, fiasco.


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