Example sentences for: foisted

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

  • Equality feminists find this celebration of selflessness creepy, but it's not just being foisted on women by male writers.

  • "one of the lamest films [MGM] ever has foisted upon the world" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ) ...

  • The only real remaining mystery, say the study's authors: What's the blacked-out country alphabetically between Canada and Cuba that had U.S. nukes foisted on it between 1956 and 1965?

  • The chair was foisted on reluctant faculty by administrators eager to please wealthy donor Kenneth Lipper (a former deputy mayor of New York and, more recently, a co-writer of the screenplay of City Hall ). It took the historians and Jewish-studies professors on the search committee a year and a half to come up with a job description.

  • Dr. Seltzer, she explained, had passed on eight or nine years ago--possibly not even aware of the literary fame that Simpson had foisted upon him.


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