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Snafu is an English word with synonyms like boner or botch. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Snafu in a sentence

Related words

Snafu | Snafus

Snafu meaning

Acronym of situation normal, all fucked up /situation normal, all fouled up.

Synonyms of Snafu

fucked-up boo-boo boner botch flub fuckup foul-up pratfall bungle bloomer blooper blunder disorganised disorganized snarl

Related words

Other words often associated with Snafu or its synonyms:

error mistake fault bumble bodge chaotic unsystematic confused upset undone broken scrambled

Using Snafu

  • The main meaning on this page is: Acronym of situation normal, all fucked up /situation normal, all fouled up.
  • Useful related words include: fucked-up, boo-boo, boner, botch.
  • In the example corpus, snafu often appears in combinations such as: bureaucratic snafu, technical snafu, snafu with.

Context around Snafu

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 4 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

bureaucratic 2× technical 2× nazi 1× fielding 1× streaming 1× organizing 1× rated 1× blackface 1× comedy 1×

Often after:

turn 1× flares 1× stranded 1× stems 1× occurred 1× money 1×

Sentence patterns with Snafu

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a bureaucratic snafu 1× a bureaucratic snafu right 1× a snafu can refer 1× a technical snafu 1× a technical snafu has wiped 1× an organizing snafu stranded hundreds 1× any snafu on a 1× experience by snafu 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a snafu can 1× a technical snafu 1× after the fashion 1× and of course 1× and the agency 1× any snafu on 1×

Common sentence endings:

a bigger mess 1× a bureaucratic snafu 1× a technical snafu 1× at zappos theater 1× bureaucratic snafu right 1× cold for hours 1×

Words around Snafu

Just before it in the word index:

snaffling 4 snaffles 2 snaffled 8 snaffle 8 snaddon 3 snacky 5

Just after it in the word index:

snafus 8 snag 299 snagged 110 snagging 49 snaggle 2 snagglepuss 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abdelaziz 38 absolutist 38 accrual 38 acquiesced 38 acrylics 38 actinium 38

Corpus analysis for Snafu

  • In this selection, "snafu" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, bureaucratic, technical, nazi, turn, flares and stranded stand out and add context to how "snafu" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a bureaucratic snafu and a bureaucratic snafu right. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "snafu" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with snafu

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Epidermis Circus – A live puppet film experience by SNAFU. (9 words)

What do you make of this latest streaming snafu? (9 words)

Egan: $165K draft lost, customer gets caught up in snafu with. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected -- otherwise known as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU in anime or by its shortened -- is a series of light novels created by Wataru Watari with illustrations provided by Ponkan8. (38 words)

A “snafu” can refer to a wide range of problems or issues, from minor setbacks to major crises, and can occur in any area of life, such as work, school, or personal relationships. (33 words)

And is the No. 1 most fantastical thing to ever happen on any TV show, sci-fi included, a movie theater making the snack stand due to a technical snafu? (30 words)

Question examples

Zero Point Scalar FieldClark W Griswald: So, was this a snafu, or a fubar, or possibly a clusterfark? (18 words)

Maybe they all ended up safe and sound, and this is all just a bureaucratic SNAFU, right? (17 words)

What do you make of this latest streaming snafu? (9 words)

Example sentences (20)

And the agency has, so far, refused to give her a letter confirming there was a snafu so she can get her green card application moving, she said.

A “snafu” can refer to a wide range of problems or issues, from minor setbacks to major crises, and can occur in any area of life, such as work, school, or personal relationships.

In addition to the Nazi snafu, they also accused the Indian government of killing a dissident on Canadian soil.

This was a power move, not a legitimate IRS tactic to clear up a bureaucratic snafu.

Zero Point Scalar FieldClark W Griswald: So, was this a snafu, or a fubar, or possibly a clusterfark?

But Stroman didn’t let the fielding snafu turn into a bigger mess.

Epidermis Circus – A live puppet film experience by SNAFU.

Maybe they all ended up safe and sound, and this is all just a bureaucratic SNAFU, right?

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We will regret it if a campfire in an unauthorized site at Snafu flares up into The Big One.

What do you make of this latest streaming snafu?

And is the No. 1 most fantastical thing to ever happen on any TV show, sci-fi included, a movie theater making the snack stand due to a technical snafu?

And of course, it was not only snafu, but situations constantly changing requiring improvisation and courage.

A technical snafu has wiped out Christina Aguilera’s performance Friday night at Zappos Theater.

Egan: $165K draft lost, customer gets caught up in snafu with.

He also tweaked Trump over a rally he had held the night before in Omaha, where an organizing snafu stranded hundreds of attendees in the near-freezing cold for hours.

The snafu stems from a data-matching error between the state’s election board and the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The X-rated snafu occurred just a few days before the season premiere of her family reality show.

After the fashion brand’s blackface snafu, Money Mayweather gleefully stunted on the boycott by going on a Gucci shopping spree.

My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong, As I Expected -- otherwise known as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU in anime or by its shortened -- is a series of light novels created by Wataru Watari with illustrations provided by Ponkan8.

Any snafu on a stage of this size is going to look considerably magnified.

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Common combinations with snafu

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "snafu" in a sentence?
An example: "And the agency has, so far, refused to give her a letter confirming there was a snafu so she can get her green card application moving, she said." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "snafu" from authentic English texts.
What does "snafu" mean?
Snafu means: Acronym of situation normal, all fucked up /situation normal, all fouled up.
What are synonyms of "snafu"?
Common synonyms of "snafu" include: fucked-up, boo-boo, boner, botch, flub, fuckup, foul-up, pratfall. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "snafu" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "snafu", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.