Sentence Examples:
It turned out a humiliating fiasco.
The American invasion had proved a fiasco.
The result is ludicrous, a mere fiasco.
Candidly, I foresee a fiasco in the approaching marriage.
She has made an egregious fiasco of her position here.
He would not permit Delaney's fiasco to annoy him.
These elaborate arrangements, however, ended in a lamentable fiasco.
The fiasco contributed to depress still more the despairing North.
A batting fiasco is not one half so ridiculous as maniac fielding.
There has to be a finish to this lamentable fiasco sometime.
Greeley's fiasco and Greeley's mortification both played into their hands.
Your employer is irritated, and attributes the fiasco to the ambassador.
He even attributed to her desertion his fiascos in his art.
It was the most dismal fiasco of a career studded with fiascoes.
Cried that worthy, as resenting his implied complicity in the fiasco.
That was the first of three fiascos in the French capital.
A rare shyness, born of the afternoon's fiasco, was still upon her.
Not being conspicuously faithful, I should only have made a fiasco of it.
Struck to commemorate a conquest, it remains now as a souvenir of a fiasco.
Lunch, alone at a pillar-table in the crammed restaurant, proved an expensive fiasco.
She kept nothing back, recounting the whole miserable fiasco of her marriage.
Unlike the night before, the date was an utter fiasco, a complete flop.
He could see Bannister Field, the scene of his many hilarious athletic fiascos.
I had prophesied a fiasco, and her second appearance really was a dead failure.
"My poor friend," said Wagner, "you are the real victim of this deplorable fiasco."
His supplies never reached the raiders and Boy-Ed learned of another fiasco.
Four or five bidders saved the issue from being a fiasco in a financial sense.
Nevertheless, he went to the composer and offered his condolences at the fiasco.
From the English point of view the whole campaign was a complete fiasco.
Nothing loath he engaged, and the others stood back expecting a high fiasco.
Charles Chaplin, which proved by its very fiasco the artistry of the original.
Even the most skeptical, however, were not prepared for the woeful fiasco which followed.
Many people still remembered the fiasco of the first attempt at the Swan River Settlement.
Except that at Fredericksburg it was the most disgraceful fiasco on either side during the war.
It took the French less time than it did the English to recover from this fiasco.
The only consolation was that the romps that followed at poor Daisy's were a complete fiasco.
His terrible appearance was a fiasco; nobody heeded him at all, only the landlady was surly.
A fiasco so complete and sweeping was laughable, even to himself; and he laughed aloud in his wrath.
"That is," he added heavily, "if his excellency will permit me to remain here after this fiasco."
Possessing myself of the newspaper, I had the satisfaction of reading a sensational account of my fiasco.
He indeed attempted a meeting in 1822, but the result was a fiasco owing to his extreme diffidence.
As I have remarked in a previous chapter, I ascribed my fiasco to the socialist atmosphere that surrounded Anna.
Ah, I imagine that he feigns to ignore the fiasco, and does not wish to be drawn into it.
She was so nervous after the gingerbread fiasco that only the ultimate good humor of Cook saved her.
It is significant of the utter anarchy then prevailing that nobody was punished for the disgraceful fiasco.
The despatch of the fleets on which he had been led to rely had turned out a ridiculous fiasco.
She suffered all the humiliation of a flabby fiasco, and, till bedtime, shrank out of her friends' way.
Valuable months had been wasted, and the projected descent on the formidable French fortress had ended in fiasco.
Crowds went to see him, and he reaped a golden harvest from the credulous, until the grand fiasco came.
This he would do at the cost of rudeness itself, for he would not permit fiasco at the last moment.
The wretched fiasco which attended the attack of the American fleet upon the "Glasgow" was greatly deplored by Jones.
A more ludicrous fiasco could hardly be imagined, and the Americans were quick to see the comical side of the affair.
All that was needed to complete the discomfiture of the cabal was a military fiasco, and this was soon forthcoming.
Nor yet is there help in the abnegation of generous fanatics whose efforts end in deplorable fiasco, as did the Commune.
Both knew the sensible, judicious act would be to alarm the guards and thus avoid all possible chance of a fiasco.
He dressed up in all his finery, he rehearsed in his head such thoughts as occurred to him and made a complete fiasco.
This vexed me, for I began to wonder if the mission which I had embarked on so solemnly were not going to be a fiasco.
The idea of blaming Queen Elizabeth for the Dardanelles fiasco is so entirely satisfactory to all parties concerned that it is being freely asked why the Commission couldn't have thought of that itself.
Besides the slight danger in this fiasco there appeared a division of opinion among Bonaparte's own friends, some of the more timid recommending in the early morning hours that Bonaparte should accept a seat in the Directory.
In the Conservative journal it was called a ridiculous fiasco, and the people were said to have come together only to admire the Governor's batting, and to laugh at the nonsense which was coming from the platform.
With these large sections removed it would not be difficult to arrange some great native reservation in the center, which should be under some international guarantee which would be less of a fiasco than the last one.
It was painful to renounce the beautiful dream, but against the fact of the fiasco nothing could be said, so the affair was given up; we went back to our home somewhat poorer in money, richer in experience.
At the spur of a vague impulse, bred of an incredulous wonder if the papers were already noising abroad the news of the fiasco at the Theater Max, Whitaker stopped one of the men and purchased a paper.
Sir George, not content with making a needless fiasco of his expedition, made himself ridiculous by sending a flag of true to demand the surrender of the village and the military post, which of course was refused.
On the 26th the Germans came back upon the Guards at about one o'clock, but their effort was a fiasco, for the advancing lines came under the concentrated fire of six batteries of the 7th Divisional Artillery.
It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that many men find themselves unequal to the task of passing successfully through this ordeal, and that the maiden speech of a future statesman has often proved a complete fiasco.
It was, therefore, not surprising that under the stress of excitement Walter should suffer this lapse of memory, but coming as it did immediately after his other fiasco, it was almost more than he could bear.
As a matter of fact, not more than one person in twenty-five can repeat correctly even one of these songs that "everybody knows," and we may as well recognize this fact at the outset and thus prevent a probable fiasco.
To utter the word 'bedtime' to Agnes was to open the attack on her father, and she felt as the conductor of an opera feels before setting in motion a complicated activity which may end in either triumph or an unspeakable fiasco.
The change had begun on the day of the fiasco at the fortress; people blamed the leaders for letting the Countess out of their hands, and it was a perpetual terror to them to have the enemy in their very midst.
Angry with himself for not having better planned the adventure, and discontented with his lieutenant for not having by presence of mind prevented the fiasco, he felt that peace of mind could only be obtained by some deed of successful daring.
My picture, which has been exceedingly badly hung, so that one can scarcely see half of it (indeed I believe only the figure of Orpheus), is an entire failure; the papers have abused, the public does not care for it, in fact it is a "fiasco."
She feared that the latter would blame her somewhat for his miserable fiasco, and she fully believed that if her husband permitted the young man to suffer open disgrace, she would never be forgiven by the proud and aristocratic lady.
Of course, we knew his own studio quite well, because it was close to our homes, and we had been there scores of times, but he was not residing there; he was staying in lodgings, for he had just come back from the Japan fiasco.
When the young man left I went out with him, partly because I felt sorry for him, he had made such a fiasco, and partly because I wished to impress upon him the fact that Liszt could play the whole movement in the tempo in which he began it.