Example sentences for: foil

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

  • “Grilled in foil or alongside a ham, turkey or chicken, those who shied away from onions before will delight in their new found vegetable.”

  • Gerald Solomon was "furious in accusing the president of using the Iraqi air strikes as a political foil to impeachment," and that former Bush Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said the operation's timing "smells to high heaven."

  • Perhaps because today's has a clear foil, in uniform, speaking German.

  • By tradition, family members play with the dreidel , a four-sided spinning top, and children receive Hanukkah gelt (chocolate coins covered with gold foil) and other presents.

  • With his rampant curls, bluff growl, black eye patch, and bright-colored pirate shirts and scarves, he's the perfect foil to geek chic, a year-round version of the "Seafair Pirates" who frolic at our big summer parade--the artist for the new buccaneer capitalism, the jester who amuses (but never challenges) the geeks.


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