Sentence examples for our foil from inspiring English sources

But in 30 years, I suspect we may all wish we'd spent a little less time screaming at MarketWatch and a little more time carefully recycling our foil.

Though we chose Walt Disney and his cartoons as our foil, this deep-seated belief in American innocence was hardly his property alone.

Bullets rip into flesh, which flies out in messy chunks as blood spatters walls and falls like crimson rain on nicely arranged white flowers – on and on it goes, bang-bang-bang, spatter-spatter-spatter, mercilessly, while we, a grey-haired audience on a Wednesday afternoon, break open our foil-wrapped carrot cake and drain the dregs of our cappuccinos.

Dogs are our shadows, our foils.

It's certainly entertaining to dwell on the ways our newfangled word-delivery programmes can foil our pursuit of precise language.

"Our leader is convinced the ultimate goal of the U.S. is to foil our spirit of confrontation and change our behavior," Mr. Mousavi said.

We are constantly exploited by the tools meant to foil our exploitation.

The data could be used to foil our efforts to disable a bomb.

The consequences of the devastation showed everyone what can happen when natural disasters foil our plans for the future.

Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said that halting the program "would hamper our ability to foil terrorist plots". Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev). and other leading Democrats hailed the ruling as a welcome check on the Bush administration.

And head coach Ziemek Wojciechowski added: "This is the first good result for our men's foil team after a relatively poor beginning to the season.