Sentence examples for making a faux pas from inspiring English sources

She's a gentle-looking 84-year-old, but she is held in such high esteem in the Ilé Axé Opô Afonjá compound that I am terrified of making a faux pas.

The guy is notoriously grouchy and you want to avoid making a faux pas, but what do you bring to a black metal tea party?

It is easy to make a faux pas in Moscow.

"If you make a faux pas, it's a faux pas against America".

I ask if I've made a faux pas with "prostitute".

(On "Meet the Press" in July, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, made a faux pas by suggesting that the Democrats could lose the midterm elections).

He'd made a faux pas, gone too far and now was fully paranoid as to my motives for drawing him out.

The interviewer might make a faux pas without even realizing it, for example, and when the candidate flags it "they may realize their mistake and be horrified that they were potentially going to cause offense," Walker says.

In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, and where campaigns hire trackers to follow opponents on the campaign trail waiting for them to make a faux pas that they can then use against them, politicians have become near robotic.

Although having said that if we were to stop, to make it a faux pas to mention referees, an embarrassing public gaffe, then I have a strong suspicion every single component part of English football would immediately start to get better.

(Fascinatingly, our faux Gimlet now seems to be making a faux "StartUp" and a faux "Serial").