Sentence examples for great foil from inspiring English sources

Will would be a great foil to Crystal's voice; and Odetta could do heavenly backing vocals.

Ms. McKay, Mr. Houghton said in a recent telephone interview, seemed like a great foil to the two clowns.

(It's also a great foil for the Biennial's Forrest Bess display; in fact Mr. Masullo owns two of the Bess paintings on view).

A crisp fashioned from sweet potato and two tiny orange-stained water chestnuts are a great foil for glossy, soft Wagyu beef.

At the time, he was known only to the tennis cognoscenti, but the world would later know him as Federer's great foil, Rafael Nadal.

This unchanging aspect makes them a great foil to dainty flowering bulbs and perennials that can grow through the field of green leaves.

They're great foils for each other in the middle order, and while Ballance is a slightly more defensive player by nature, he very rarely misses out when you bowl him a bad ball.

While the plot asks that our belief occasionally be suspended, Bloom's high-energy performance and bang-up supporting cast (Donna Lynne Champlin and Santino Fontana play just two of the many great foils) make the viewer a willing participant in the song-and-dance that is this high-powered lawyer's high-powered breakdown.

"He was the greatest foil ever for a marijuana-reform campaign," Tvert said.

England's greatest foil was a bloke most probably entitled to claim disability living allowance in the Merseyside district.

Ronson became Bowie's greatest foil over the next three years as his music evolved into the full-metal outrage of Ziggy Stardust.