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Example sentences for: foils

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

But Starr foils both sides.
Although it was Elbow Patch and Tweed Day at the committee, the NYT shows that often the academic witnesses were just foils for members' speechifying.
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does.
But somehow the farmer foils the little predator's scheme, and he ends up with nothing-neither chicken, nor eggs.
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice.