Examples of flub in a Sentence
Verb
The ball went right to him but he flubbed the catch.
The actress flubbed several lines.
Noun
when she was told her information was wrong, she apologized for the flub and immediately corrected it
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Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
The insurance flub cost taxpayers roughly $30,000.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
Goldberg's relatable flub came amid a Hot Topics discussion about Punch, an adorable macaque whose story of abandonment and bullying at the hands of other primates inside his Japanese zoo enclosure took the internet by storm across the last week.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
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Verb
The Ducks equalized when Andrew Mangiapane flubbed a sterling opportunity at one end and Sennecke created one at the other.
—Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
The insurance flub cost taxpayers roughly $30,000.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
Trump seemed to get a kick out of Obama’s flub.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2026
Goldberg's relatable flub came amid a Hot Topics discussion about Punch, an adorable macaque whose story of abandonment and bullying at the hands of other primates inside his Japanese zoo enclosure took the internet by storm across the last week.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Flub.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flub. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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