snafuin a sentence
- Until the snafu was straightened out, he had to subsist on candy bars from Red Cross nurses.† (source)
- Hard to the east is the Salton Sea, a placid ocean in miniature, its surface more than two hundred feet below sea level, created in 1905 by a monumental engineering snafu: Not long after a canal was dug from the Colorado River to irrigate rich farmland in the Imperial Valley, the river breached its banks during a series of major floods, carved a new channel, and began to gush unabated into the Imperial Valley Canal.† (source)
- He'd say it was a snafu, by no means the first, from what I hear.† (source)
- In the morning, Mae called Annie, who was on her way to the airport, heading to Mexico to untangle some regulatory snafu.† (source)
- Low-cost second-line antibiotics would soon be on their way to Russia, but at the moment various snafus had delayed their arrival.† (source)
- If this case gets messed up because of some legal snafu'well, they aren't strong enough to go through it twice.† (source)
- Instead of going to Cleveland with their necks shaved for the drop of the guillotine blade, they would show up with battle plans drawn to reverse the effects of the Zingers snafu.† (source)
- I imagined the usual plots—a helicopter rescue, a tunnel, a paperwork snafu and mistaken release.† (source)
- It's always a SNAFU: situation normal, all f—ed up.† (source)
- Just sign this paper that I briefed you in this little snafu.† (source)
- The danger, and the necessity of not having a communications' snafu, must be just as apparent in the Pentagon, or the White House, or wherever the President is, as it is here.† (source)
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- By now, the COs realized that there had been some snafu with the plumbing.† (source)
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