How to Use fiasco in a Sentence

fiasco

noun
  • Man’s folly of fiascos is a feast for the flies.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But there seems to be little chance of full-on fiasco.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • And then there was the Byju’s fiasco.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Man’s fiasco folly is a feast for the flies.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The move is the latest in a fiasco now a decade in the making.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • That’s what this summer-long fiasco has become for a lot of folks around here.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Listen to Forte recall his fringe fiasco in the clip above.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026
  • There was the Epstein files fiasco.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Georgia rapper is in love with fiasco.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Buttiegieg is taking heat from both sides of the political aisle over the fiasco.
    — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Four hours after the frustrating fiasco began, the marsh was once again calm.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Not only a defeat, not only a fiasco.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 May 2026
  • Let’s hope this fiasco is not a preview of what travelers can expect in the future.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Was the Beijing fiasco still haunting her?
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That’s how the whole Yolanda Foster fiasco came about.
    — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Its shares have fallen slightly since the travel fiasco, even as the broader market has gained.
    — Mary Schlangenstein, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The chicken and beer fiasco in 2011.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • This turned into an hour-long fiasco that caused Moulton to miss his flight—and lose both canisters.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2015
  • As fury grew among legions of hardcore Swifties, Swift herself weighed in on the fiasco.
    — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • On that front, maybe the Taylor fiasco is already having an impact.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The electrical fiasco, in other words, didn’t matter that much.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The federal government had to spend a lot of money to cover that fiasco.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Cook isn’t convinced that reporters have learned much from the Holmes-Fortune fiasco.
    — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Russian commanders, meanwhile, have learned from their fiasco in the north of Ukraine.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
  • Long ago, most normal people concluded that this fiasco should be abandoned.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Serenity is a high-concept fiasco, but what if Hathaway eats?
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • This, if possible, blows up in her face even more spectacularly than the brunch fiasco.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Before this cost-cutting fiasco, Tesla already was having a rough go of it.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The parking meter fiasco has been back in the news this week because that original consortium put the deal up for sale and why not?
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The Cracker Barrel fiasco is a classic that business schools will study for decades.
    — Jess Collen, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025

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