Example sentences for: foibles

How can you use “foibles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Conclusions: 1) Harding was the Clinton of his day, plagued by scandals of his own making, aided by a strong-willed wife who ignored his foibles, ultimately achieving nothing.

  • The leaden account Walsh has produced more than a decade later reflects in microcosm most of the foibles that afflicted his investigation.

  • Visible speech, regardless whether alphabetic or logographic, with all its faults and foibles, its inherent inconsistencies, inadequacies, and inaccuracies, it seems, is here to stay.

  • He gently castigated Shaw for indulging in one of the modish foibles of the day by calling himself G. Bernard Shaw rather than use, in the good old Irish manner, George B. Shaw .

  • Nina Totenberg ( Inside Washington ) giggles (literally), "We've accepted men's foibles all along."


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