Thesaurus / foil
FEEDBACKHow to use foil in a sentence
Later, Melenda would send me off with a warm slice of her homemade rum cake wrapped in aluminum foil.
UNTIL I CAN GO BACK TO MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT, THIS JERK PASTE IS THE NEXT BEST THINGELAZAR SONTAGSEPTEMBER 25, 2020EATERTypically, they’re refreshing, tart, and often physically chilled, making an ideal foil to the highly spiced meat.
TURN A CHEAP CHICKEN DINNER INTO A TURKISH STREET-FOOD GETAWAYSAVEUR EDITORSSEPTEMBER 25, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThe new design is “tabless,” which means the rolled-up foils inside each cell won’t need a metal tab running its length in order to enable charging and discharging.
TESLA’S NEW BATTERY TECH PROMISES A ROAD TO A CHEAP SELF-DRIVING ELECTRIC CARSTAN HORACZEKSEPTEMBER 24, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEHe’s turned the group into a boogeyman of sorts, and it serves as a perfect foil for a president and a conservative movement looking to cast the overwhelmingly peaceful participants in protests over police brutality as a group of violent thugs.
WHAT TO MAKE OF THE DHS WHISTLEBLOWER’S SHOCKING COMPLAINTALEX WARDSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXLine an open box with aluminum foil, and use it to reflect sunlight into the box.
LET’S LEARN ABOUT THE SUNBETHANY BROOKSHIREJUNE 24, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSA small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISOut of the panic at Big Shanty two men emerged, determined, if possible, to foil the unknown captors of their train.
FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WARVARIOUSGeneral Hancock's head-quarters' flag,—the tree-foil of the Second Corps,—was waving on the ridge southwest of the house.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.For two ounces of liquid I should recommend a sheet of stout silver foil, about two inches long and half an inch broad.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 218, DECEMBER 31, 1853VARIOUS"You bet they're the real thing," said Tough McCarty, slipping off the foil.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONWORDS RELATED TO FOIL
- balks
- blocks
- chokes off
- confounds
- corners
- crabs
- cramps
- cramps one's style
- crimps
- cuts off
- dead-ends
- defeats
- foils
- gives the run around
- hangs fire
- hangs up
- holds off
- holds up
- impedes
- mystifies
- nonpluses
- obstructs
- pigeonholes
- prevents
- puts on back burner
- puts on hold
- puzzles
- shelves
- snookers
- stalls
- stonewalls
- stumps
- throws a monkey wrench into
- thwarts
- baffle
- balk
- beat
- bilk
- check
- circumvent
- confuse
- counter
- cramp
- cross
- curb
- dash
- dead-end
- defeat
- disappoint
- ditch
- dodge
- duck
- foil
- foul up
- frustrate
- give the slip
- hinder
- hold up
- impede
- obstruct
- oppose
- outwit
- pit
- play off
- prevent
- queer
- restrain
- ruin
- stop
- stymie
- take down
- take the wind out of (one's) sails
- trammel
- upset
- upset the apple cart
- baffles
- balks
- beats
- bilks
- checks
- circumvents
- confuses
- counters
- crabs
- cramps
- crimps
- crosses
- curbs
- dashes
- defeats
- disappoints
- ditches
- dodges
- double-crosses
- ducks
- foils
- foul up
- frustrates
- gives the slip
- holds up
- impedes
- louses up
- matches
- obstructs
- opposes
- outwits
- pits
- plays off
- prevents
- queers
- restrains
- ruins
- scotches
- skins
- snafus
- stymies
- takes down
- takes wind out of
- trammels
- upsets
- attenuate
- blunt
- clip one's wings
- corrode
- cripple
- debilitate
- dig
- dig out
- disable
- eat away
- enfeeble
- erode
- excavate
- foil
- frustrate
- hollow out
- hurt
- impair
- knock the bottom out of
- mine
- poke full of holes
- ruin
- sabotage
- sandbag
- sap
- soften
- subvert
- threaten
- thwart
- torpedo
- tunnel
- undercut
- wear
- whittle away
- wreck
- attenuates
- blunts
- clips one's wings
- corrodes
- cripples
- debilitates
- digs
- digs out
- disables
- eats away
- enfeebles
- erodes
- excavates
- foils
- frustrates
- hollows out
- hurts
- impairs
- knocks the bottom out of
- mines
- pokes full of holes
- ruins
- sabotages
- sandbags
- saps
- softens
- subverts
- threatens
- thwarts
- torpedo
- tunnels
- undercuts
- wears
- whittles away
- wrecks
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