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    Use "foul" in a sentence

    foul example sentences

    foul


    fouled


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    1. There is violence because we are shown daily that the perpretors, who are powerful pillars of the society, examples of success in making money through means usually foul


    2. ‘Stephen’s got a pretty foul temper himself … I expect it was six of one and half a dozen of the other if the truth were told


    3. Can’t blame him for giving up with me really … I’ve not been an easy client and on top of that, I was pretty foul to him the other night … damn my temper!


    4. He threw the foul brew that had masqueraded as tea out through the open


    5. That usually means either the management are foul or the job is deadly


    6. ‘Avaunt ye, foul fiend!’


    7. This individual was possibly off radar as a result of internecine strife within the C-Block or for falling foul of any one of the various killer whales that this particular little fish may have been sharing the pond with


    8. Jimmy stepped up to the plate, squared to bunt the first pitch and bunted it foul


    9. ‘Jacqui fell foul of Harvey the first time she met him, Liz


    10. ‘Is it the concussion that is giving me this foul headache, doctor?’

    11. Anyway, I suspect her success was just a foul play, so as to show this special telepathy experiment was not just a flop


    12. He turns up on time and the weather is being kind to us – it has been pretty foul for the last day or so, pouring with rain and blowing a gale, but today, the clouds have cleared and the sun has come out


    13. It transpired that during my week of foul, self-centred temper and depression, Menachem had been leaving notes


    14. The dredge probe returned with it unharmed and no evidence of foul play


    15. A few of the folk sniggered at the use of the foul word


    16. One of the foul creatures stuck its head into the cave and sniffed


    17. The jollop tastes foul


    18. the foul muck of land and superstition


    19. He was now so angry with the old woman because of her continual sniping about his nose that he stormed out of the bar and strode through the city streets in a foul temper for the rest of the night, but no matter how hard he looked or how many people he questioned, no one seemed to know anything about his stolen lover or about the evil kidnapper and his clapped out motor


    20. Even in more enlightened times, it was a foul job

    21. A whiff of something foul wafts past my nose … what was that? It smelt like bad eggs


    22. I turned to run and slipped and fell in some awful foul smelling liquid; it was dragon pee, and it saved my life


    23. ‘Hi, Sally, how’re things with you?’ - Gary - ‘Oh, I’m fine – foul day at school but that’s how it goes sometimes


    24. and all things foul


    25. On this foul weather day the hall was full of commotion because


    26. gift of this foul creature of the sun, and that is how Billy ended up


    27. city streets in a foul temper for the rest of the night, but no matter


    28. I only hope something really foul happened to him


    29. He vomits, adding his own foul odour to the already putrid air


    30. was still in foul humour after the altercation with

    31. Storming around the table bellowing foul language, Chas reached Mickey and lashed out with his fist


    32. She gave the young man a moment to relinquish the sleeve still tight in his fingers then stated clearly and loud enough for his mates and anyone one else out at that time to hear, “You will keep a civil tongue in your foul little mouth, or there's more where that came from! Don't even begin to tell any one else about 'manners!' I don't know from whose foolish talk you picked up that misapplied epithet, but you will do well to remember this: you and your little friends are not even civilized humans yet and until you learn to treat others as you would be treated, I pity you the knocks and bruises in store for you, and not just at the hands of a 'woman' next time;” she glared at them one at a time, “Now get on back to your homes and don't even think of repeating such a foolish stunt!” she added


    33. It had been Chrissie’s bad luck to be in the way on that particular night and she had received a mouthful of foul language from the prima donna as a result


    34. The doctor gives Jock a foul look but out of the corner of his eye he sees Helen shaking her head


    35. ’ Ozzie had said to the heap of sodden flesh and clothing now seeping foul water all over the bedroom floor


    36. All thru Nightday and well into Dawnsleep she paced the deck while the darkrunner toiled in foul winds thru Shipping Cut and the Grand Canal


    37. Anything in foul territory


    38. vengeance on this foul gentile, and such a revenge would


    39. Freddy Flowers was on the mic again, cursing what he called God’s foul


    40. The opposing team touched the ball only once—a foul ball that

    41. was in a foul mood and was looking for any provocation so


    42. Bryant attempted to bunt but was called out after bunting the ball foul three times


    43. a foul smelling mould, and Henri could hardly bear the


    44. his lips and a cloud of foul smoke engulfing the room from


    45. stadium was filled, and the crowd overflowed down the fences of both foul lines


    46. The Stinking Toe Tree has ‘big fat toe’ branches and edible fruit that that leaves a foul lingering smell!


    47. ” the dwarf said, studying the foul head stuck to his weapon


    48. Even so, in his periphery, he saw that the wall was being covered by the foul creatures


    49. Brodin’s gut was hard as rock, but as his gaping nostrils sucked in the foul air even he felt the bile rising at the back of his throat


    50. So foul was the smell that Jean's party














































    1. There’s not enough to go round, an order from the supplier fouled up, so they decide to offer a choice


    2. The batter fouled the ball straight up


    3. missed it and fouled it straight back behind me


    4. "Yes, fouled up the end of his upbringing


    5. swine is the largest pile of manure that’s ever fouled this land


    6. stubbornly, you still say that I fouled up


    7. they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet


    8. He said that the public baths were for the common folk and were usually quite crowded and tended to get fouled


    9. In it, he says not only was the whole show fouled up, but you shot up a bus and napalmed the passengers when they tried to escape


    10. Getting their luggage was such a fouled up mess that the four men decided to hit the bar on the top floor overlooking the airport and retrieve their bags later

    11. only thing that fouled up--and I don’t use the word fouled


    12. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are at stake and if nets get fouled or a seiner comes up with empty nets, all can be lost


    13. Bottles of spirits circulated among the Australians, while smokers fouled the air and sprinkled ash and butts over the marble floor


    14. ‘It was only the knowledge that you were always there in case I fouled up that gave me the confidence to go on


    15. a dirty pipe-- it would be fouled on the way


    16. 'When I fled into Stygia, Python was in ruins, and all the great, purple-towered cities of Acheron fouled with blood and trampled by the sandals of the barbarians


    17. ‘white bastard’ any time a player was fouled


    18. The third pitch was sent into the crowd, as a fouled tip


    19. I’m thinking his heart attack, or stroke, or whatever it was that brought him down, fouled up the entire operation


    20. The teacher is in charge, and in a football game, you have to learn that the referee has the final say - even when you think you have been fouled

    21. of partial membrane blockage that needs to be corrected before it becomes irreversibly fouled,


    22. “Ugh – he fouled himself – that stink,” replied Johnny


    23. All over, their spoor fouled the pristine environment


    24. Unobserved, for the moment, Kris fouled himself


    25. So even the act of ridding the Sacred Earth of these foul scum: fouled their Sacred Earth


    26. of fouled air or foul spirits


    27. into and through the earth (downward), then carries on to deeds (fouled waters), and finally to


    28. Notice also how the seven spirits of evil merge the symbolism of water and earth, hence fouled


    29. Likewise, when the air has been fouled ( smoke or


    30. water, and all the gifts of creation not yet fouled and lost forever

    31. o Has the propeller fouled with line?


    32. he pinch hit in the last inning with two outs and he fouled off several pitches


    33. Has Werner ever seen snow this white, snow that was not fouled immediately with ash and coal dust? The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action


    34. Boy, I really fouled that up


    35. "I'll kill him," repeated Bigwig, spluttering through his fouled whiskers and clotted fur


    36. The punt would not have left the bank or, if it had, would have run aground or been fouled by weeds or some other obstruction


    37. fouled him—hard—retrieved the ball, and stepped back to drain a j


    38. has no virtue that we know of, save perhaps to sweeten a fouled air, or to


    39. straddling the stream, which it fouled with a steaming and stinking


    40. way Arabs cry for their dead, sitting in a trickle of fouled water that might well have been a pool of tears

    41. Beside the tents the old cars stood, and water fouled the ignition wires and water fouled the carburetors


    42. The motor was full of water, the battery fouled by now


    43. These forceps can seize firmly hold of any object; and Alexander Agassiz has seen an Echinus or sea-urchin rapidly passing particles of excrement from forceps to forceps down certain lines of its body, in order that its shell should not be fouled


    44. There, there, I won't! From this field of corruption fouled by flies, let's pass to my tragedy, also befouled by flies, that is by every sort of vileness


    1. Not that a Leftist might not like the cigar, but he cannot be perceived as fouling the air with one


    2. The police? This city will turn crazy, a real battlefield fouling the


    3. Because of the often restricted space in the sound for the fishery, boats can be close to each other, sometimes too close, resulting not infrequently in collisions, or fouling of nets in propellers etc


    4. With nationalist propaganda fouling his mind he questioned whether the Jews that looked so peculiar to him were even Germans


    5. In order to counteract a biological fouling of the resins, the facility


    6. the associated risk of fouling


    7. scavenging capacity, particulate, chemical and microbiological fouling of the reactive resin


    8. water, then capacity, contact time, resin surface fouling, pH, and regeneration frequency are very


    9. additive impact on resins and membranes, and loss, degradation, and fouling of resin


    10. Why for sure Islam in the original form had outlived its utility to the poor believers, and if only the stilted media gets its act right to drive home this point into the minority minds, the interests of the Indian Musalmans would be well-served that its sophism is fouling

    11. Gritich bodies and ash were strewn all over the forest, their blood hissing out and fouling the air


    12. "Metaphysical," I said, fouling slightly with a big word and waiting quietly for the


    13. nose to the wingtips to prevent the cable from fouling in the event of a miss


    14. Frank, studiously ignoring the spectacle that was Lloyd, said with more conviction than was warranted, “Detroit is the only team that needs to worry about players fouling out


    15. And we are fouling the cleanest remaining resources as fast as we can find them and despoil them


    16. breathing the acids of aggression, and fouling with poison what you leave behind


    17. The figure of the wild man burst into flames and a deeper voice of darkness broke forth fouling the air with its utterance


    18. The mast ripped through the protective netting rigged above the decks, crushing half a dozen men, fouling three more guns in the starboard broadside, and then plunging over the side like a sea anchor


    19. But what I contend against is the way medical men are fouling their own


    20. The sooner he got up there, the sooner he could head off Metro Police, who were no doubt fouling up his crime scene at that very moment

    21. They danced drunkenly on the shore of an empty sea, fouling the air with their three tongues, and burning it with their cats' eyes malevolently aglitter:


    22. They danced drunkenly on the shore of an empty sea, fouling the air with their three tongues, and burning it with their cats’ eyes malevolently aglitter:


    23. But here, this whole thing is ancient and different, and we have to set down somewhere and start fouling it up


    1. I thought that it was unfair that fouls that were obvious were not being called


    2. In just seven minutes Kurt had committed six fouls and his team was thoroughly demolished, losing 21-6


    3. “But what if he fouls out?”


    4. The first half played out as expected, with Detroit taking a twenty-point lead before Chuck could call enough fouls to foul out each of Detroit’s best players


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    Synonyms for "foul"

    foul befoul defile maculate contaminate pollute back up choke choke off clog clog up congest afoul fouled filthy nasty cruddy smutty cheating dirty unsporting unsportsmanlike fetid foetid foul-smelling funky ill-scented noisome smelly stinking marked-up disgustful disgusting distasteful loathly loathsome repellant repellent repelling revolting skanky wicked yucky impure polluted soiled squalid stained sullied gross offensive putrid stormy rainy tempestuous unfavourable base abominable infamous scandalous shameful sinful vile vulgar coarse low obscene profane scurrilous unfair dishonourable underhanded entangled caught jammed tangled besmirch poison smut soil stain catch entangle tangle

    "foul" definitions

    an act that violates the rules of a sport


    hit a foul ball


    make impure


    become or cause to become obstructed


    commit a foul; break the rules


    spot, stain, or pollute


    make unclean


    become soiled and dirty


    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust


    offensively malodorous


    violating accepted standards or rules


    (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines


    (of a manuscript) defaced with changes


    characterized by obscenity


    disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter


    especially of a ship's lines etc