Sentence examples for but he foiled from inspiring English sources

He just muttered, 'Tell your Mum to call during cheap times.' I sent flowers to the house once after he'd annoyed me, but he foiled that by unexpectedly doing the washing and finding the receipt in my jeans.

Yes, he foiled the matchup, but Burns was happy that dangerous opponents were on the bench.

He foiled opponents with wickedly spun second serves.

A terrorist succeeded in getting a bomb on a flight back in 2009, but he was foiled by onboard security—no, just kidding, he was foiled by his own stupidity when his bomb didn't work properly.

Minutes later the storming winger Daryl Horgan surged forward and tried to poke it towards the striker Patrick McEleney but he was foiled.

But he was foiled a few days later when the Yankees held an "excavation ceremony" and pledged to send the jersey to the Jimmy Fund, an official charity of the Red Sox, affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Henderson's lofted pass found him free in the box but he was foiled by the onrushing Devlin.

He records the plate number of any unfamiliar car loitering in his neighborhood; so far, no one has tailed him there, but he did foil a robbery the time he reported a suspicious vehicle.

But he was always foiled by an opposing power forward or center, just as he was tonight.

He may have been planning an exit, but if so he was foiled.

He won't say what temp he cooks at on his MAK pellet smoker, but he is now foiling when his bark is the deep mahogany color he wants, usually somewhere between 140 and 150°F.