foy

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • The midfielder’s defensive contributions to see out Arsenal’s seventh clean sheet from their opening 10 games of the season should not be overlooked either.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The second-quarter Dragons barrage featured contributions from the offense, defense and special teams.
    Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jefferson County Public Schools agreed to change several policies to keep a federal magnet school grant.
    Ray Padilla, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The court will decide whether to extend McElroy’s TRO into a longer preliminary injunction, which would keep the FEMA homeland security grants available while the case proceeds.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The toaster, and many of their other housewares, had come in a care package from George Lucas’s production facility Skywalker Ranch.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For even more ideas, check out our extensive list of gift guides, including gifts for the jet-setters in your life, college students who need care packages, tech gurus, book lovers, and more.
    Julia Forbes, Wired News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Church offering plates are meant for tithes and charity, not political contributions.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
  • According to the Internet, all opponents of Caitlin Clark should create an HOV lane for her to the basket, give her at least 5-feet on 3-point shots, and after each game provide a tithe to her account.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • To forget or exceed herself takes the form of erotic dissolution and spiritual oblation.
    Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His father also contributed to oblation research in 1988.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • In the Senate, Democrats are withholding support for a measure to keep the government funded at current levels unless Republicans extend subsidies that help some Americans pay for health care through the Affordable Care Act, which are set to expire at year's end, among other demands.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Federal housing assistance programs support more than 8 million people by providing units in public housing or subsidies that help cover the cost of rentals on the private market.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Halloween menu is part of the burger chain's effort to innovate its menu with new offerings.
    Alia Shoaib, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects that the pullback in some plan offerings could result in a decline in Medicare Advantage (MA) membership next year.
    Annika Kim Constantino,Bertha Coombs, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Residents also grew frustrated, as migrants reluctantly snared in endless court proceedings appeared to be gaming the system and living off the taxpayers’ dole.
    Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
  • By placing them on the foreign-aid dole, U.S. officials know that foreign officials will do their bidding when called upon to do so.
    Jacob Hornberger, Orange County Register, 12 May 2024
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“Foy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foy. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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