Example sentences for: foisted

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

  • 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.

  • But it is quite another thing when it is foisted on an unsuspecting public as fact, when, indeed, it is either pure speculation or a writer's interpretation of the best way to make data fit into the procrustean bed of his theory.

  • The gambling industry did everything in its power to stop the establishment of this commission two years ago, but Congress and a fervent grassroots anti-gambling group eventually foisted it on the industry.

  • To me, vulgarity means `bad taste,' whether deliberate (as in the case of Roseanne ) or unintentional (as in the case of crude drawings foisted on us as “art”).

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


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