How to Use cry foul in a Sentence

cry foul

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• Creedmoor fans will cry foul at this one, but no hunter will want to discount it.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2020
• Some fans of Kraftwerk, Gil Scott-Heron and others might cry foul.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2021
• Two of the 10 losing bidders cried foul, and are suing to put a stop to the contract.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 17 July 2026
• And when critics cry foul, the institution plays the victim card.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• But everyone survived, and not a single intestine was heard to cry foul.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• And Biden's final act of pardons show Democrats have lost a lot of ability to cry foul.
  — Axios, 22 Jan. 2025
• Broadway fans may cry foul, but each film is different and needs to be marketed accordingly.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Still, some members of Congress continue to cry foul, and Ayotte has been leading the charge.
  — Laura Pitter, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2016
• Meanwhile, some North Texas leaders will likely cry foul over not getting one of the two new congressional seats.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2021
• Her defenders cry foul, saying that what matters more than her misdeeds are her status as a black woman and that of her critics as right-of-center nonacademics.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• Without any Democratic support, the bill failed to get out of the Senate, and Scott took to the floor in late June to cry foul.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• Some owners cry foul and say that all unit owners should pay the same amount for assessments, citing friends who live in other states where assessments are evenly divided among all unit owners.
  — Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
• Even in the rare instance in which the designs are authorized, as is the case with the Eames sneaker, fans can cry foul at the commercialization of a designer’s work.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• The contract was awarded to Microsoft last October, prompting Amazon to cry foul.
  — Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• Individuals and groups in India that sniff offense are ready to cry foul, sue filmmakers, and go on a rampage against productions and cinemas.
  — Karan Mahajan, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• Duncan Abigaba, a manager at the center was among the first government officials to cry foul about Facebook’s move.
  — Stephen Kafeero, Quartz Africa, 11 Jan. 2021
• Vodka Gimlet Traditionalists will cry foul, noting this classic should feature gin rather than vodka.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 20 June 2024
• Before all you Apple heads cry foul, rest assured these earbuds will sync seamlessly with either iOS or Android devices.
  — Jon Langston, Car and Driver, 12 Nov. 2022
• Unprecedented changes in voting procedures due to the coronavirus pandemic have created openings for candidates to cry foul.
  — Robert Speel, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2020
• Adding to his issues is a potential GOP primary, as some conservatives continue to cry foul over his work with Democrats in recent years.
  — Al Weaver, The Hill, 1 June 2025
• Additionally, the governor's visit to the French Laundry restaurant in the middle of these orders last November caused many to cry foul.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• Nothing to cry foul about other than that other organizations are not using all the tools the CBA allows to build their own franchises as effectively.
  — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• And, if that pharmaceutical company disproportionately made the vaccine available to rich, white citizens, people would cry foul.
  — Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• Even today, the Israeli media is quick to cry foul whenever German politicians say anything that could potentially be construed as criticism of Israel.
  — Lauren Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2014
• Republicans continue to cry foul, saying that Newsom's gambit for new maps is politically motivated.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2025
• On Election Day, some of the state’s ballot tabulators malfunctioned, leading many Republicans to misleadingly cry foul.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2022
• Republicans have contended the grants bankrolled an unfair turn-out-the-vote operation for Democrats and have said Democrats would cry foul if conservative groups gave similar donations to areas dominated by Republicans.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
• The 2011 letter was sinister enough to provoke elite critics ordinarily predisposed to support feminist policy, like the American Association of University Professors, to cry foul.
  — Kay S. Hymowitz, WSJ, 2 May 2022
• Belgium is crying foul after FIFA cleared USMNT star Folarin Balogun before Monday's World Cup Round of 16 showdown in Seattle.
  — Alejandro Avila, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026