Sentence examples for foil me from inspiring English sources

Whoever it is deserves some kind of genius award because they foil me every single time, not that it's hard because I also have other brain disorders like thinking I'm only going to need 60 minutes at the hair salon and believing no one would have the heart to fine me for crossing half a fingernail into a red zone.

Even a fast of merely three days had foiled me.

Workers foiled me, so I'll never be sure: was my perch Bill's perch?

I always started out determined not to eat much, but there was food and there were restaurants that foiled me, like the tuna salad at Sadlack's, a deli of sorts that we frequented.

They started giving me foil every time I was at a family function.

"My husband realised that he missed an opportunity to grab my share and so he attacked me to foil my father's plan.

Really this is just a foil for me to get closer to bro culture: how it is now, betwixt a group of testosteronery young lad-actors who are kicking back during a probably laborious press tour; and how it was then, in the 80s when the film is set, among the group of far more mustachioed college athletes they play.

Chocolate hearts, wrapped in red foil, tempted me from a dish on the counter so I grabbed a few.

Grant me the strength to thwart and to obstruct, To grandstand and to stonewall, To foil and to filibuster, Until the whole thing quietly dies in committee.

He did, and although I'm sure the actress who had been cast in the part still blames me for foiling her break, I think the film is better for it.

"Foil usage makes me sad.