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Example sentences for: foil

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In another alarm about the peace negotiations, the Jerusalem Post predicted that Iran will step up terrorist activities around the world in order to foil a settlement.
He has one friend, a man, who is an obvious foil.
He was the perfect foil for Marine cowboy Oliver North.
These two are intended as a foil for the nonjudgmental main characters--the sort of fake liberals who proclaim tolerance out of one side of their mouths and issue snobbish put-downs of gays, blacks, and Brooklyn out of the other.
Archaeologists have concluded that the Giza pyramids were built within a few hundred years of each other by generations of the same royal family c.2600 b.c. as elaborate tombs designed to foil robbers.