Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use debacle in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Debacle means an event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. Example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”

Examples of debacle by meaning

nounAn event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

  • The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.1952, Boaz Cohen, Epistle to Yemen, translation of original by Maimonides, page 5

More sentences with debacle

  • Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.From the entry radioactive
  • She took the blame, in the public's eyes, although the debacle was more her husband's fault than her own.From the entry take
  • That was a debacle. We'll start afresh.From the entry start afresh
  • Leadership is definitely tough, but it really feels like we're just stumbling from debacle to debacle.2023 May 28, u/mbStavola, “JT: Why I left Rust”, in Reddit, r/rust, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2025. From the entry vaguepost
  • The domestic debacle unleashed by the pandemic, and global perceptions of American selfishness and incompetence, could change everything.2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian. From the entry on course
  • Let’s face it, O’Brien was rooked — rooked! — when NBC did the takesy-backsy thing with “The Tonight Show,” and he didn’t stint on joking about that debacle Sunday.2010 June 8, Kristina Dorsey, “Off the air, on the road, Conan has his moments”, in The Day, volume 129, number 342, New London, Conn.…. From the entry takesy-backsy
  • The problem isn't just Brenda, it is that there will never be agreement on what to replace her with. viz. the House of Lords debacle, the Australian Republican referendum.2002 November 6, Tom, “Re: "Be careful, Paul..."”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet). From the entry Brenda
  • During this debacle, Wei was probably out of harm’s way to the north of the city in Sui-chou, the modern Sui-te county, Shensi ("Composed in Sui-chou”).[1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “The Life and Times of Wei Chuang”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)…. From the entry Suide
  • If mishandled by the world policy establishment, this debacle is big enough to shatter the fragile banking systems of Western Europe and set off round two of our financial Götterdämmerung.2009 February 14, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, “Failure to save East Europe will lead to worldwide meltdown”, in The Telegraph. From the entry Götterdämmerung

Meaning of debacle

  1. noun An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
  2. noun A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

Full definition of debacle

Questions about debacle in a sentence

How do you use debacle in a sentence?
Debacle is used as a noun. For example: “Even sleazy tactics and his radioactive mouth may not be able to contain this debacle.”
What is a short sentence with debacle?
“That was a debacle. We'll start afresh.”
What does debacle mean?
Debacle means an event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: debacle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use debacle in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/debacle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.