How to Use cry foul in a Sentence

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• Some fans of Kraftwerk, Gil Scott-Heron and others might cry foul.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2021
• Creedmoor fans will cry foul at this one, but no hunter will want to discount it.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2020
• 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
• And when critics cry foul, the institution plays the victim card.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Meanwhile, some North Texas leaders will likely cry foul over not getting one of the two new congressional seats.
  — Dallas News, 27 Sep. 2021
• And the somewhat higher margins in Arizona, Georgia, et al. would foreclose any serious attempt to cry foul.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
• 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
• Broadway fans may cry foul, but each film is different and needs to be marketed accordingly.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The contract was awarded to Microsoft last October, prompting Amazon to cry foul.
  — Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Orange County officials cry foul following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to move the region into the most restrictive reopening tier.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• And, if that pharmaceutical company disproportionately made the vaccine available to rich, white citizens, people would cry foul.
  — Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024