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

Eventually, Tetlock and his collaborator, Barbara Mellers, assembled a team of foxy volunteers, drawn from the general public, to compete in a forecasting tournament.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2019

She is right that it is quite a leap from wearing a fox on a sweater or chucking a foxy cushion on your sofa to warming to the real thing.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2017

Basta emphasized the word, putting his foxy face so close to Meggie's she could see herself reflected in his eyes.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke