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Example sentences for: foibles
How can you use “foibles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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 .
I felt Wilson was sometimes too complacent in seeing human foibles (such as irrational spiritual beliefs) as evolutionarily adaptive.
My foibles are very serious, indeed, and are not anything to joke about.
I begin to cleave to the well-matured story, I'm afraid; but it does have the advantage today, when the younger generations demonstrate a total lack of respect for tradition, of not being overworked by the comedians who rarely say anything funny or even clever but make up their routines to remind us of our foibles.
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.