Sentence examples for like a foil from inspiring English sources

Planes fly because their wings are shaped like a foil.

My cut looked unassuming at first: a small roll of white-pink tenderloin meat coated with an ultra thin layer of cooked bread, more like a foil.

Today, another startup is officially entering the adaptive learning space, but, like a foil to NoRedInk, it's tackling the mathematical side of education.

The festivities that go along with New Year's are like a foil to my resolutions: I'll decide that I'm going on a diet in the new year, and then I'll swallow six jello shots.

With its exploration of how we share authorship, its focus on the [trajectory of] an idea, how we engage with and build an ongoing conversation around art, do it is like a foil for the increasingly static nature of gallery shows and the art world moving online.

It sounds like madness but is likely a foil against it.

I like it as a foil for the heat of the togarashi.

Claydon's mysterious fusions of old and new, raw and manmade, include a large plastic industrial oil drum presented like a ceremonial urn beside a rough clay idol with teat-like studs and a foil mandala made from Mylar, the material of astronauts' space blankets, and embossed with cartoon characters.

Of course, Scholastic spent heavily on more traditional measures, like printing a foil-embossed cover with a newly commissioned illustration.

At first, I couldn't understand why Mr. Frank wouldn't want a foil like Mr. Frey on the panel of witnesses.

Without a vital Boss at the helm of the Yankee dynasty, how would Murdoch's Fox TV have created a ratings point from a Marlins World Series if Florida hadn't had a foil like Steinbrenner?