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faux pas example sentences
faux pas
1. ’ I apologised, appalled at my faux pas
2. ’ Wiesse said, recovering from his faux pas
3. There is an ugly moment while I scour around fruitlessly for a way to smooth over my faux pas
4. Progressing through his teenage years he committed all of the usual fumbling faux pas and awkward lunges that boys the world over are obliged to do before they become men
5. of the usual fumbling faux pas and awkward lunges that boys the
6. Flushing at the reference to her former faux pas, she answered, “I wanted to apologize for my presumptive behavior at the outset of this meeting
7. If Maureen noticed his faux pas she didn't let on
8. "A what? Did you mean faux pas?" When he refused to acknowledge she went on
9. Pleased by the faux pas, they both prayed to the Lord for vetting the pujari’s invocation
10. “Why live in the past when the present is inviting,” she said alluding to the pujari’s faux pas
11. consolingly to mitigate his faux pas
12. She had underestimated these Americans and their social habits, deplorable they may be overall, but resolved not to make that faux pas again
13. Perhaps catching them off guard with their defenses lowered would result in a verbal mistake or some other faux pas that would indicate their guilt or their involvement in the last murder that could only have just occurred since the séance ended; however, given that the killer was exceedingly cunning as was evidenced by the ingenuity of the planned murders, it would be unlikely that such a crafty individual would be perturbed by a visit or be flustered to the point of making a grievous error
14. Forgetting that she could not see his inviting gesture, Feltus opened the palms of his hands then, upon realizing his faux pas, said, “Please do, Ms
15. Garcia drew her suddenly to him, realizing his social faux pas had hurt her
16. While a Rahul Gandhi dithered after his initial faux pas, Modi was on a roll
17. “Naturally, the coven seven means the seven members, who are,” she sighed, realizing her faux pas, “who were members of our coven
18. I must have looked chastened, because he dismissed my faux pas with a wave
19. And only as an, er, um, unfortunate faux pas… in an otherwise illustrious, glittering parade of pomp and circumstance
20. “All right, Jimmy, I forgive your faux pas
21. The media itself chose to bow out of the entire affair and refused to defend his right to free speech… while at the same time, treacherously and double faced: it blew up his tiny faux pas into a National scandal
22. quartz tipped pens veined with gold ink, bleeding into the pages of our pioneering faux pas,
23. Just a couple of weeks later, Rose wrote to Jean, criticizing her for a fashion faux pas
24. So after this faux pas at RSA, we are betting on a successful – if painful – comeback
25. I would have preferred not to answer, but this seemed my best opportunity to recover from my earlier faux pas about Henry
