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Sentence count:65+3Posted:2017-03-23Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: roiledspoiledembroiledshop-soiledfoiltoilettoiletrybroilerMeaning: [fɔɪl]  adj. disappointingly unsuccessful. 
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31. It announced on July 15 that an attempted coup had been foiled the previous night.
32. Harris foiled him with a cross-court volley into the nick and Martin lost his lead by misdirecting an audacious winner.
33. Again they were foiled - this time by a security cage lining the shop window.
34. Their first attempt, however, was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point.
35. The 28 Fluanxol pills are pink, round and sugar-coated and were in foiled paper in a cardboard box.
36. Read in studio A man has foiled a raid at his local filling station despite being threatened with a hammer.
37. The burglar was foiled by a passer-by who noticed the broken window and phoned the police.
38. But troops loyal to the general foiled the attempt and he emerged with his customary grin and triumphal air-punching.
39. He was foiled in his attempt to deceive her.
40. They were foiled in their attempt.
41. His youthful ambition was once foiled and defeated.
42. Their foiled attempt to capture calais.
43. Saturday afternoon he foiled a hijacking at LAX.
44. Their attempt recapture the city was foiled by a traitor.
45. A Japanese citizen failed in his attempt to commit Seppuku, a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment,(http://sentencedict.com/foiled.html) in front of the Houses of Parliament in Tokyo Monday after police foiled his bid.
46. An anti China vote, concocted by the United States, was foiled once again at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
47. As Claudius narrates his life, we witness Augustus' attempts to find an heir, often foiled by his wife Livia who wants her son Tiberius to become emperor.
48. Their attempt to recapture Calais was foiled thwarted by a traitor.
49. Although one may run into snags And be foiled everywhere in his course of pursuit.
50. Phoebe's Navy man (Ryan) is in town for two weeks, but their plans are foiled because Phoebe has the chicken pox, and gives them to him as well.
51. The thief was foiled in his attempt to enter the house.
52. He did not wish to be foiled in his object.
53. He was foiled in his attempt of poisoning the friendship between us.
54. Earlier this year, an air crew foiled a woman's alleged effort to ignite a commercial aircraft in an apparent terrorist act, and the plane successfully made an emergency landing in western China.
55. Kenobi foiled her plans , though, and escaped along with Alpha.
56. Kath had tried to slip across the street, but the traffic foiled her.
57. Another attempt at misdirection was foiled by an alert mail carrier.
58. And that's what became of the mosquito that foiled the lion!
59. The idea of building a roof terrace was also foiled by the planning authorities.
60. An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.
More similar words: roiledspoiledembroiledshop-soiledfoiltoilettoiletrybroilersoil erosionpublic toileteau de toilettefaileddetailedunveiledfoistfoiblegalileo galileioilroilsoilboiltoilspoilrecoilboil downembroilturmoiltoilsomecastor oilsesame oil
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