Sentence examples for use as a foil from inspiring English sources

The governor, said Clay, would "rather not have someone out there [in the Senate race] that makes an easy target for Democrats to use as a foil to generate interest".

What I discovered was an ambitious lot of louts who see the defeat of the president and the rest of the Democrats in Congress as a door that opens on power: the power to be minions to the wealthy, as servile as the Republicans whom they use as a foil, but slicker, more concierges than butlers.

And it was Lowell, much more than Plath, whom critics perpetually used as a foil when describing Wilbur.

The staff was used as a foil, or practice substitute, for the long, two-handed sword of the period.

Lombardo conveys the farcical whimsy of the immortals, so often used as a foil to the human race, with a light and deft touch.

Sometimes he thinks that his moderation, along with the relative centrism of the Texas House, is being used as a foil for the Senate radicals.

It's ended up that they are almost being used as a foil to tell a story about love and how identity is tied into that.

"At the beginning of the administration, she was used as a foil; she was very tough on Israel," said Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization.

If Thomas believes that the Garden is really the place for him to rebuild it, he may want to remember how being used as a foil worked out for Billy Martin.

UK chancellor George Osborne's emergency budget was stark in the cuts that it laid out – and there's obviously a good case to be made that the notion of an impending debt crisis was largely used as a foil for an ideologically motivated attack on the public sector.

Has Dole decided to use Gingrich as a foil?..