be a foil to
Example Sentences
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Katrine was alone, there was no other woman's face to either rival or be a foil to hers, and after the first six weeks her beauty ceased to sting and surprise Stephen's senses.
From A Girl of the Klondike by Victoria Cross
He would only be a foil to Mr. Hardie, and perhaps bring him on faster.
From Love Me Little, Love Me Long by Charles Reade
He presented me in society under the expectation that my dulness would be a foil to his qualities.
From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
I could at least be a foil to this healthy, vigorous young beauty who was two inches taller than I, and might have my share of the advantages which go with all antithesis.
From The High Heart by Basil King
He is to have none, I suppose, but just be a foil to throw her into relief.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
