be a foil to
Example Sentences
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Katrine was alone, there was no other woman's face to either rival or be a foil to hers, and after the first six weeks her beauty ceased to sting and surprise Stephen's senses.
From A Girl of the Klondike by Cross, Victoria
The many people that fall down may be a foil to illustrate the dangers of the path, for the purpose of deepening the impression of improvement.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely
He presented me in society under the expectation that my dulness would be a foil to his qualities.
From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
He is to have none, I suppose, but just be a foil to throw her into relief.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian
I won't go about to be a foil to her.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
