Wondering how to use Fiasco in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as debacle or collapse.
Fiasco meaning
- A sudden or unexpected failure.
- A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
Using Fiasco
- The main meaning on this page is: A sudden or unexpected failure. | A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong. | A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
- Useful related words include: debacle, collapse.
- In the example corpus, fiasco often appears in combinations such as: the fiasco, fiasco is, this fiasco.
Context around Fiasco
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fiasco
- In this selection, "fiasco" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ftx, copenhagen, inspection, flask, sometimes and regulators stand out and add context to how "fiasco" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as this fiasco s denouement and called a fiasco flask pl. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fiasco" sits close to words such as accolade, accompaniment and artistry, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fiasco
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Another year, another debt ceiling fiasco. (6 words)
After the FTX fiasco, regulators are out for blood. (9 words)
As president, I'll put a stop to this fiasco,” she said. (12 words)
It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl. fiaschi); however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles. (44 words)
After the landslide election for a bunch of so-called ‘progressives’ (I am a real progressive, none of them were) in 2016 the first thing they did was hold a town hall meeting at the Vets Hall to ‘look into’ the rental inspection fiasco. (44 words)
Besides, Twins fans — and perhaps Falvey, too — still have nightmares over the 2022 trade deadline fiasco involving Tyler Mahle and Jorge López and how those two trades have played out in terms of cost and return. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl. fiaschi); however, the fiasco is only used by a few makers of the wine now; most Chianti is now bottled in more standard shaped wine bottles.
After all, the Paris Agreement came after the Copenhagen fiasco; sometimes we need to fail in order to succeed.
After the FTX fiasco, regulators are out for blood.
After the landslide election for a bunch of so-called ‘progressives’ (I am a real progressive, none of them were) in 2016 the first thing they did was hold a town hall meeting at the Vets Hall to ‘look into’ the rental inspection fiasco.
Another year, another debt ceiling fiasco.
As president, I'll put a stop to this fiasco,” she said.
Besides, Twins fans — and perhaps Falvey, too — still have nightmares over the 2022 trade deadline fiasco involving Tyler Mahle and Jorge López and how those two trades have played out in terms of cost and return.
But an additional lesson from the aid fiasco in Afghanistan is that pouring money into a country that lacks the mechanisms to absorb and distribute it responsibly and effectively is a recipe for failure.
But like John Belushi in Animal House after the latest fiasco at the Delta frat, the airline is bellowing “Road trip!” to its Rapid Rewards customers, with a new sweepstakes.
Even as some persons continue to harbor certain beliefs, and as much adversaries continue to speak to the ‘IHI Fiasco, he remains undaunted and unperturbed.
Female staff had threatened to walk out over the 'humiliating fiasco', leading to union officials input.
In addition, banks were already tightening credit before the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco, and are now tightening even more as issues in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loom.
In both cases, the criminal attempts to quickly make off with the money, leaving owners, buyers, banks, home title insurers and governments to sort out the fiasco.
Indeed, if anything, it could be seen as a bit of a correction from the lows hit during the FTX fiasco.
In prepared testimony for a hearing Thursday, a top Southwest executive apologized again for the fiasco and said the airline is taking steps to avoid another breakdown, but he provided few new details about the breakdown.
I trusted her to get my defence in first, blaming everyone but me for the fiasco, especially Dom.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco teaches a class at Boston Arts Academy on Wednesday.
Some blame for this fiasco goes to the federal government and the Federal Reserve for running multi-trillion-dollar deficits and QE post-Covid.
The 34-year-old also documented the fiasco in a TikTok video, titling the clip ‘Our honeymoon journey from hell’, as new wife Sophie contributed to the voiceover.
The appointment of Sultan Al Jaber as president of Cop28 could be seen as this fiasco’s denouement.
Common combinations with fiasco
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fiasco 34×
- fiasco is 9×
- this fiasco 9×
- fiasco in 9×
- fiasco and 9×
- was fiasco 6×
- fiasco was 6×
- ferry fiasco 5×
- fiasco of 5×
- fiasco the 5×