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Later, Melenda would send me off with a warm slice of her homemade rum cake wrapped in aluminum foil.

From Eater

Typically, they’re refreshing, tart, and often physically chilled, making an ideal foil to the highly spiced meat.

The 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.

He’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.

From Vox

Line an open box with aluminum foil, and use it to reflect sunlight into the box.

Frank no longer has his convenient foil from The Lay of the Land, his Tibetan associate Mike Mahoney.

But his lumbering lurch toward the Ted Cruz tin-foil-hat convention should instead be an object lesson for Republicans to come.

If McConnell really thinks that, then why not foil their scheme by voting yes?

French and Crown one rib rack and season with salt and pepper, cover exposed bones with foil, cook in oven at 350 for 2.5 hours.

The image really serves as a foil to the victim on the tape.

A small palm tree was set in the midst of the arena,—the trunk bronze, the leaves one sheen of gold-foil.

Out of the panic at Big Shanty two men emerged, determined, if possible, to foil the unknown captors of their train.

General Hancock's head-quarters' flag,—the tree-foil of the Second Corps,—was waving on the ridge southwest of the house.

For two ounces of liquid I should recommend a sheet of stout silver foil, about two inches long and half an inch broad.

"You bet they're the real thing," said Tough McCarty, slipping off the foil.

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On this page you'll find 144 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foil, such as: antithesis, background, complement, counterblow, defense, and guard.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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