tinfoil

noun

tin·foil ˈtin-ˌfȯi(-ə)l

: a paper-thin metal sheeting usually of aluminum or tin-lead alloy

Example Sentences

Wrap the leftover food in tinfoil.

Recent Examples on the Web At their feet, people smoked fentanyl off tinfoil while others nodded off. —

Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2023 Two teenagers were burning something that looked like tinfoil in the back of the bus. —

Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022 Two teenagers were burning something that looked like tinfoil in the back of the bus. —

Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 6 June 2022 The tinfoil-hat crowd has seized on Alexandra Pelosi’s presence as somehow proving the whole thing — the desecration of the Capitol, the assault on democracy — was staged. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022 Film Gala wearing what can be described as tinfoil couture. —

Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Nov. 2022 Glick suggests packing hoagie rolls to make sandwiches for the next morning along with some tinfoil for easy wrapping. —

Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022 The old friend went to his car and brought out a black container that had tinfoil and white powder. —

cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022 In the end, many of its low-income residents were left without air conditioners during Portland’s hottest week of the year thus far, with many trying to cope by taking cold showers or taping tinfoil to their windows to reflect the sun. —

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