foxy

Example Sentences

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Yet while the basic gesture of translation is reverent, sometimes a foxy irreverence yields pleasing results.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Volunteers describe the trauma of seeing life recede from the animals’ foxy faces, and of being knee-deep in the carcasses of creatures they had worked for years to save.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

But is it a matter of incompetence — “We couldn’t even collude with ourselves,” says son-in-law Jared Kushner — or something more foxy?

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

There are fox tea towels, mugs, greetings cards and even – despite all those tabloid stories about foxes who want to eat your children – foxy babygrows.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2017

The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams