Sentence examples for gaffe occurred from inspiring English sources

The gaffe occurred at the Fed Cup, one of the premier events in women's tennis.

The gaffe occurred when the former reality-show star admitted that he did not yet know enough about the Ohio governor to properly insult him.

Producers of the singing competition show "The X Factor," on Fox, have come under fire after a contestant's noticeable lip-syncing gaffe occurred in a live episode on Thursday night.

The gaffe occurred when President Nicolas Sarkozy of France called Mr. Netanyahu "a liar" in a private chat with President Obama at the G20 summit that was accidentally broadcast to a small group of journalists.

Trump's Kasich gaffe occurred at a campaign rally in Des Moines on Wednesday, when the former reality-show star admitted that he did not yet know enough about the Ohio governor to properly insult him.

On Sunday, Hernandez's gaffe occurred in the field, when he didn't make the turn at second base in what should've been an inning-ending double play with one out against the Colorado Rockies.

If a regrettable gaffe occurs, Ms. Beauman has an all-purpose solution: Pretend to yourself "vigorously, passionately, and with true commitment that the faux pas simply never happened".

Michael Kinsley famously said that a political gaffe occurs "when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say".

No article or blog post of this kind can be complete without a reference to (Michael) Kinsley's Law of Gaffes, which states that a gaffe occurs when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

It all serves to underline the inadequacy of the definition of a political gaffe made by the egghead American journalist Michael Kinsley, who argued that a gaffe occurs when a politician voices an obvious truth they were not supposed to utter.

Instead of a gaffe occurring "when the spin broke down," many in this new breed of gaffes came about when the spin was successful.