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Example sentences for: foil

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For Mamet, however, the core of the piece is Winslow's daughter, a snootily progressive ingénue and a suitable romantic foil for the conservative Morton.
He was the perfect foil for Marine cowboy Oliver North.
But it's mainly there as a foil to an evening dress by Geoffrey Beene (1968) with a football number in glittering beading.
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."
Kathie Lee, endlessly chipper and extra-perfect, serves as superb foil for Regis' peevishness.