foul play

Example Sentences

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Indian singer-composer Zubeen Garg's drowning last year in Singapore was accidental and there is no evidence of foul play, a coroner's inquiry has found.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Nanos’s words offered a grim signal that foul play was involved in the disappearance of Guthrie, an 84-year-old with health issues who, her family says, relies on daily medication for survival.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Mikhail's family believe he was the victim of foul play, but after a year-long criminal investigation, the cause of his death remains unexplained.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

The UK government last year ruled out foul play.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

They were running, all four of them, Cari shrieking foul play even though she’d pulled the same trick herself a hundred times.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez