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"Foil" in a Sentence (32 examples)
Make balls 3 centimeters in diameter and place them on a sheet of buttered aluminum foil.
I finished off one half of the pizza and wrapped the other half in aluminum foil and put it in the fridge.
Let's practice foil fencing.
Let's practice with the foil.
Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
This threatens to foil our plans.
Regicide is a foil to the divine right of kings.
Be careful about the aluminum foil covering the bottom of the plate, don't burn yourself!
Tom never leaves the house without his homemade aluminum foil hat. He wants to use it to protect his brain from harmful radiation.
OK, so when you "FOIL" two binomials, you multiply the first term in each binomial, then the outer terms, then the inner terms, then the last terms, and then you combine like terms. That's what FOIL stands for. Let me show you an example.
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wrap the sandwich up in foil
Whereas the female invests heavily in the wake of conception, the male invests heavily prior to conception. Hitherto, the male has been regarded as the mere foil to the heavy investment in reproduction that renders the female the logjam (the limiting factor) in reproduction – reproduction overall is expandable by increasing the number of females, not by increasing the number of males.
As Puss comes to realize his legendary status is not a substitute for interpersonal connection, his interactions with Kitty and the therapy dog start to take on a surprising amount of weight, while Goldilocks serves as a well-realized foil who has more in common with Puss that is at first apparent.
As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.
1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey Hector has also a foil to set regard
Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.
1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.
I personally would collect all the foils from Base Set before this one, but the market is what the market is.
They foiled my plans.
I was foiled by my superior
And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.
And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
her long locks that foil the painter's power
Perhaps you think you love me now but it is only for an instant, and because you are foiled.
First, former Toffee Mikel Arteta sent Walcott racing clear but instead of shooting he squared towards Ramsey, who was foiled by Tony Hibbert.
Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.
they foil the scent of one another.
King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot.
Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal foil
Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.
[…]but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.
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