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• Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.From the entry layer
• Our new foil packets keep the flavour of the crisps locked in.From the entry lock in
• Place the pork butt in the center of a single 18 x 36-inch piece of foil.2019 July 22, Chris Grove, The Offset Smoker Cookbook: Pitmaster Techniques and Mouthwatering Recipes for Authentic, Low-and-Slow BBQ…. From the entry butt
• It is good!” Ganbold said, and began to peel the foil away from his cheese stick.2015, Randy Blythe, Dark Days, →ISBN. From the entry cheese stick
• I have no choice but to take up the foil once again and vanquish this rake.2009, The Onion, 2:27 from the start, in Bad Boy Fencing Star Implicated In Yet Another Jewel Heist, spoken by Reggie Greengrass (Beau…. From the entry rake
• Serving Suggestions: Wrap peanut-butter cups in gold foil and serve them in the Halloween candy bowl.2009, Anita Chu, “Peanut-Butter Cups”, in Field Guide to Candy: How to Identify and Make Virtually Every Candy Imaginable, Philadelphia…. From the entry peanut-butter cup
• The sweet, firm apples turned out to be the perfect foil for the soft, minerally oyster.2007 April 11, Marian Burros, “The Enticing Oyster, in Months With ‘R’ or Not”, in New York Times. From the entry minerally
• The young Spaniard's vivacity and flair is the perfect foil to Federer's stoicism and meticulousness.2006 July 9, Jim Ryan, “Federer's game has no weaknesses”, in SportingNews. From the entry manpris
• Put a piece of aluminum foil under the cutter on a silpat.2004, Toba Garrett, The Well-Decorated Cake, page 102. From the entry silpat
• In foil the important thing is to be sure you have the right of way.2002, Elaine Cheris, Fencing: Steps to Success, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry right of way
• The wax will slide down the mould and collect on the foil.1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10. From the entry alfoil
• Spirit money, yellow bills imprinted with gold foil, was tied with red string and shrink-wrapped in thick stacks.2018, Ling Ma, chapter 8, in Severance, →ISBN. From the entry accoutrement
• “Getting up too quick is like tin foil,” she says, and she grabs the table with both hands to steady herself.2017, Jill Eisenstadt, From Rockaway. From the entry blicked
• Cover with another bread slice and two more foil sheets, and fold over edges to avoid oozage. 3.2014, Blair Thornburgh, Stuff Every College Student Should Know, Quirk Books, →ISBN. From the entry oozage
• Press iron onto the foil packet and move it back and forth across the foil surface for 30 seconds.2014, Blair Thornburgh, Stuff Every College Student Should Know, Quirk Books, →ISBN. From the entry oozage
• In Catholic doctrine, the virtue of chastity is taken to be the principal foil to everyone's favourite deadly sin, lust.2010, The Guardian, Celibacy: whose bright idea was that?, 29 May 2010. From the entry chastity
• In electric fencing, foil and saber fencers wear lames, which are thin outer jackets that cover their target areas.2009, Suzanne Slade, “Electric Fencing: Get Hooked Up”, in Fencing for Fun!, Mankato, Minn.: Compass Point Books, →ISBN, pages 30–31. From the entry box
• Outside, Billy broke the cellophane on a hardpack of Marlboro Reds, tore out the foil, and extracted a cigarette.2008, George P. Pelecanos, The Turnaround. From the entry hardpack
• Then running it on the foil was not enough for me and I wanted the needle - to get further away.2001, Pretext, page 105. From the entry twock
• Rene has played wonderfully a nonnonsense security chief, comic foil to Shirmerman but has also convincingly played a betrayer.1998 February 16, Daniel Tropea, “DS9's real strength - imho”, in alt.tv.star-trek.ds9 (Usenet). From the entry nonnonsense
• New alarm systems foil code grabbers by using sophisticated algorithms to prevent a remote from transmitting the same code twice.1995, Consumer Electronics in Review. From the entry code grabber
• The complete jacket is a lamination of kraft paper, fiberglass cloth (skrim) and either aluminum foil or metalized film.1988, Plumbing Engineer - Volume 16, page 52. From the entry skrim
• The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes.1987, Richard Seymour, David Elvin Smith, The Physician's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs, page 75. From the entry freebase
• But “you” are also me, before, during, later, over the foil, the lover, the ham & cheese who will not eat herself.2023, Brenda Shaughnessy, “‘You’—my friend I made and lost, I did not write”, in Tanya: Poems, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN…. From the entry veganly
• Beyond that, the assumed project of memorycide offers a negative foil for the duty to remember and for the dedication of museums, memorials, and monuments.2012, Dan Stone, The Holocaust and Historical Methodology, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry memorycide
• The trumpet seat in the band will go to Wallace Roney on Friday and Duane Eubanks on Saturday; Abraham Burton will provide a saxophonic foil.2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry saxophonic
• After that, I'd covered my windows with foil and thick green garbage bags, all of which is a real pain to take off.2007, Julie Kenner, Good Ghouls Do, page 84. From the entry vampdom
• I’d take my float and drive my figure of eight round the neighbourhood, picking up empties and delivering bottles of creamy white cow-juice, capped with red foil.2015, Alex Christofi, Glass: A Novel, London: Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry cow-juice
• It's nothing more than a gumwrapper looking piece of foil with red phosphorous, potassium chloride and metal shavings or BB's, whichever the producer would like to use.1996, Congress, Rising scourge of methamphetamine in America, U.S. G.P.O., page 38. From the entry gumwrapper
• As Mother Jones goes to press, the masked, web-slinging wall-crawler is busy foiling a computer technician's evil designs to brainwash people through subliminal advertising in video games.1983 September-October, Bob Sanders, “Our Kind Of Superhero”, in Mother Jones, volume 8, number 8, page 9. From the entry wall-crawler
• The radial heat losses are minimized by the Molly Guard foil which establishes a linear temperature profile between the hot heater housing and the water cooled base plate.1978, Proceedings of the 13th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, volume 3, Society of Automotive Engineers, page 1948. From the entry molly-guard
• Some years ago, we read in a U.S. trade paper a method for determining causticity of bottle-washing solution when foil labels are contained on the bottles undergoing cleansing treatment.1961, Bottling: A Quarterly Supplement to the Brewing Trade Review, numbers 147-154, page 171. From the entry causticity
• One can object to a few of the crafts included—paper punch pictures, blottos and metal foil sculpture—because they are more likely to lead to "tricks" than to art.1955, Craft Horizons, volume 15, New York, N.Y.: American Craft Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 49. From the entry blotto

Meaning of foil

1. noun A very thin sheet of metal.
2. noun A very thin sheet of plastic.
3. noun Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

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Questions about foil in a sentence

How do you use foil in a sentence?

Foil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They foiled my plans.”

What is a short sentence with foil?

“They foiled my plans.”

What does foil mean?

Foil means a very thin sheet of metal.