How to Use faux pas in a Sentence

faux pas

noun

• Arriving too early would be a serious faux pas.
• Stick to the Dress Code Run your outfit past the bride and groom to avoid any fashion faux pas.
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• Don’t commit any of these faux pas on your next night out.
  — Christina Liao, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2023
• This is a social media faux pas that a lot of brands are guilty of.
  — Jim Tobin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Commenters rejoiced that the Palace didn't try to hide Meghan's dress as a faux pas.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Oct. 2018
• Bold Whites Some people think that wearing white this late in the year is a faux pas.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• And treating a fashion faux pas as a racial affront isn’t a good look for the rest of us.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• Thought that tights and sandals were a fashion faux pas?
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2018
• Below are some of the most prevalent website faux pas and how to avoid them.
  — Rhett Power, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• As seen in photos from the glam gala, the crown princess was quick to catch the faux pas and switched her navy sash to her right shoulder.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• Kennedy was also accomplished in the twin arts of the faux pas and the breach of protocol.
  — David M. Shribman, WSJ, 16 July 2021
• Fanny packs went out of style years ago and were even mocked as a fashion faux pas.
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Nov. 2021
• Just ensure the shorts aren’t longer than the actual dress to avoid a fashion faux pas.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
• With this dress, Markle may have looked to the royal for inspo—sans fashion faux pas.
  — Halie Lesavage, Glamour, 5 July 2018
• Brown responded from that free throw faux pas with 14 points in the second half and just one turnover.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022
• The only other faux pas was the turn signal stalk, which has a wiper button on its end.
  — Tribune News Service, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2023
• What’s the etiquette for a gifting faux pas — in a pandemic?
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• The faux pas would be forgetting that little black bow tie.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2022
• And the most common faux pas in the mulch world falls in the category of quantity.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 9 Apr. 2021
• In the United States, it would be considered a social faux pas.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2020
• Still, a stamp ejecting Taiwan from the national boundaries was a faux pas even for the 60s.
  — Ilaria Maria Sala, Quartz, 2 Sep. 2019
• My biggest faux pas here was my first and last attempt at some April Fool’s humor back in 2014.
  — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Twitter users were quick to call out Biden on the apparent fashion faux pas.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• In order to avoid any fashion faux pas with her guests and ladies-in-waiting, the Queen’s stylist shares the choice with the rest of the house in the most traditional of ways.
  — Monique Jessen, PEOPLE.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Looks like Hadid just turned a faux pas into a fashion win for her and her sister.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 22 May 2018
• Dan Roberts Fashion has finally broken down one of the last style faux pas.
  — Samuel Hine, GQ, 2 July 2018
• Going to bed with a face full of makeup is the ultimate skincare faux pas.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 16 Aug. 2022
• But that historic faux pas is still so fresh that its shadow is still cast across the Academy’s stage.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• Since grilling is a learned skill, mistakes are inevitable—but, with the right culinary know-how, those food faux pas are only temporary.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 20 June 2024
• Kendall’s lack of confidence in the kitchen might stem from a viral kitchen faux pas from an earlier season of the Hulu series.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Sep 2024