How to Use foul in a Sentence

foul

1 of 4 adjective

• The medicine left a foul taste in my mouth.
• The weather has been foul all week.
• The ankel didn't put him on the bench, but rather foul trouble.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2022
• But the foul-mouthed raccoon takes the spotlight for the first time in Vol.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the second half, the foul calls were 14 on the Razorbacks and eight on the Bears.
  — Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• The 33-year-old also has one of the highest foul rates of any big man in the league.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Maybe foul a little less, but that’s how the league is.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 1 Jan. 2023
• The Lions went into foul mode and USD put the game away at the free-throw line.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• But a full-court trap and foul game wasn’t fruitful enough.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• At times, the Frogs charged the rim, hoping to convert a tough layup or draw a foul call.
  — Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Lamar Steven celebrates the bucket and the foul in a March game.
  — David Petkiewicz, cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Lemahieu reached and poked a four-seamer out of the zone just inside the right-field foul pole.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• These easy at-home tricks might get the smell out of your shoes and prevent foul odors.
  — Dwyer Frame, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
• Your body will feel better, and your urine won’t smell so foul.
  — Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
• The thing that ties the top four foul drawers together is their style of play.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 30 Jan. 2024
• With both teams in the bonus, Iowa has started to foul Indiana.
  — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2023
• Jones said symptoms to look for are swelling, redness, foul smell and fever.
  — Fox News, 16 Feb. 2023
• Semien hit a two-run home run off of the left field foul pole one inning later to make it 11-0.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• After a look at the replay, the umpire ruled that the ball did hit the foul pole for a home run and sent Stanton around to score.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• She was charged with her third foul midway through the second and was subbed out as a result.
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The event consists of a fan randomly picked to try and beat The Freeze in a race along the warning track from foul pole to foul pole.
  — oregonlive, 21 July 2023
• One fan in the field-level seats near the right field foul pole, turning to face the crowd, encouraged others to join the chant.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Temple's torching of the Bearcats on the boards was in part due to Viktor Lakhin being in foul trouble.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2023
• Wade, battling foul trouble, scored zero points in the first half against Holy Cross.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• Scotty Brennan stepped to the foul stripe with 13 seconds left in a tie game and knocked down a pair to give Los Gatos a two-point lead.
  — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Melendez smashed a one-out solo home run just in side the right field foul pole against Xavion Curry in the ninth.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• Replace flour with a foul, musty, or sour odor or if the texture and coloring have changed.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 20 July 2023
• Still, there may have been a silver lining to the foul weather, said Mayekar, the former deputy mayor.
  — Isis Almeida, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• And that was a victory for the cause of freedom, which never has enough foul-weather friends.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 10 Feb. 2023
• What to know Is a Glendale golf course supervisor wrongly taking the fall in court for foul stench?
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024

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foul

2 of 4 noun

• He hit several fouls in a row.
• The first three went for strikes — two fouls and a whiff.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2023
• And if the ref don’t call a foul and you get hurt, that’s your problem.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Rams didn’t have a foul whistled against them until 6:06 left in the first half.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• Two more fouls wrapped around a ball, which sailed high and outside, had the count full.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Van der Horst was whistled on the play, and headed to the bench with her fifth foul.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• No more calling fouls in the last minute of a playoff game.
  — Nawal Arjini, The New York Review of Books, 30 Sep. 2023
• But before the Wolves could take a shot, Blair stole the ball in the paint and drew a foul with three seconds left.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Players are assessed two points for a flagrant-2 foul, and one point for a flagrant-1.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Kanellos drove to the basket and drew a foul with 5.1 seconds left.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
• Jordan Lee stole the ball with only a few seconds left and drew the foul.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2024
• In this instance, in their judgment, the contact did not rise to the level of a foul.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
• Bam Adebayo leads the Heat with 22 points and eight rebounds, but has three fouls.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• Two fouls at the end of the quarter on Perry sent him to the bench and slowed the Wolverines’ momentum.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Gabe Vincent and Max Strus have three fouls each, and combined for just 2 points.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• The most famous foul, and free throw, in school history.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• Then came a bad foul on a 3-point shot, with all free throws going in, to keep Kansas State alive.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• Perry did all of his last-minute heroics with four fouls.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Eckert won the draw to start overtime, and Larsen drew a foul to give herself a chance at the winning goal.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 26 May 2023
• Sandy reading, into his windup and the strike one pitch: curveball, tapped foul, Oh and two.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Kids sat poised in the stands with their mitts, eager to do their part and catch opposing team’s fouls.
  — Annika Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• Purdue has 4 turnovers already, and Zach Edey picks up his 1st foul.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2023
• The Aztecs made the game ugly, beat the Tide to the floor on loose balls and benefited from a pair of fouls on Brandon Miller.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2023
• The game went back and forth in the final minutes, as Indiana was up 88-87 when it was called for a foul.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• Not long after, Yarnevich went to the bench after picking up her fourth foul.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
• The tone of the game was set with 2:51 left in the first quarter, when Jokic got his second foul and joined Aaron Gordon on the bench.
  — Time, 13 June 2023
• The league noted that referees can also call fouls and flops on the same play.
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• Doncic missed a layup, but waved his arms in disbelief that a foul wasn’t called.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• When Forbes went to the bench at the end of the third quarter with her third foul, Baylor went on a 6-0 run to take a four-point lead into the fourth quarter.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2024
• Milicic connected on seven of his 11 shots and drew five fouls, sinking a pair of clutch free throws and collecting a key defensive rebound to get Charlotte back in the win column.
  — Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024

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foul

3 of 4 verb

• He was fouled as he attempted the shot.
• She fouled on her first long jump attempt.
• He kept fouling pitches into the stands.
• With time in the game winding down, the Heat were forced to foul.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
• O’Neale stays in front, doesn’t foul, contests the shot.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Jan. 2022
• But the Saints were forced to foul and could get no closer.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2022
• The Seattle Mariners shortstop fouled off the fifth pitch.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
• But the Bonnies had to foul Holmes, who made two more free throws.
  — Mitch Stacy, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2024
• The Crimson Panthers were forced to foul and couldn’t pull out the win.
  — al, 25 Nov. 2022
• But as this was still the ICE age, the mass adoption of car use fouled the air.
  — Carlton Reid, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
• The Blazers kept fouling, and the Heat already was in the bonus with 7:58 left.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Cole, again, went up and in with his fastball and Reyes fouled it off.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Suns guard Grayson Allen was fouled by Fox to stop the clock with 18.1 seconds left.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2024
• But Carroll was forced to foul, and Coppell put the game away at the free throw line.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
• Woods made 11 of 14, many of those coming late as the Wolverines were forced to foul.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Atlanta then fouled Kelsey Mitchell, who made a free throw to close the scoring.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Aug. 2023
• Green caught the ball in the corner behind the arc and went up, but was fouled by Georges Niang.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• There was a lot of hand-checking the whole game, a lot of fouling going on.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• In his first at-bat Thursday, Betts fouled a ball off the inside of his foot.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• The mistake forced the Frogs to foul late, allowing the Horns to stay ahead as time expired.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• That pulled Benet within 44-39, but the Redwings were out of timeouts and had to foul.
  — Matt Le Cren, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
• The Lakers also don’t foul much — their 16.4 per game after the All-Star break was the league best.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• When play resumed, the Jazz did not foul, but did play full-court defense.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
• Villanova's Justin Moore grabbed the rebound and Xavier was forced to foul.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2022
• With the Jazz having a 3-point lead and eight seconds left, Snyder told the Jazz to foul to force the Rockets to go to the free-throw line.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Mar. 2022
• Mark blocked a three-point attempt by Taylor, who then fouled him.
  — Bob Holt, arkansasonline.com, 17 Jan. 2024
• In the eightieth minute, Shaw was fouled by a French defender and went down in pain.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• Dutcher didn’t have a timeout, but his players were in front of the bench and were told to foul if Bradley made both to put the Aztecs up three.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
• Sandoval fouled off four straight pitches before striking out on a foul tip.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
• Missouri got into foul trouble in the second half, losing big man Jordan Butler to fouls with 10 minutes to go.
  — Dave Skretta, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2024

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foul

4 of 4 adverb

• The force of the foul sent Caruso crashing to the court.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2022
• The one-two pitch on the way: curveball, tapped foul off to the left of the plate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• But in this case, there was blood -- yet still no foul.
  — Emmett Prosser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2022
• If it was caught and nerfed right away, no harm no foul.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• The ball might have landed foul if Crum hadn’t touched it.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
• Collins was called for a flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game.
  — David Thompson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2022
• Some fans of Kraftwerk, Gil Scott-Heron and others might cry foul.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 31 Oct. 2021
• Then there was the foul called on Iowa's Tony Perkins with 15 seconds left that sent Gilyard to the free-throw line to seal the game.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2022
• Then this year brought new charges, and the defense is crying foul.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2021
• The union had cried foul over Amazon's new mailbox ahead of the results.
  — Sara Ashley O'Brien, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
• The sink in our primary bathroom has a foul-smelling odor to it.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
• Here's a video of Alek Manoah trying to blow a Jeremy Peña bunt foul.
  — Ian Harrison, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• The foul-smelling mix of seawater and fuel was washing across the deck.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• The group then hurried away from the area while crying foul at the demonstrators.
  — Tim O'Donnell, The Week, 27 July 2021
• The Wolverines were up 56-50 when there was a loose ball foul away from the play which led to a media timeout.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2022
• On the other end, Mathurin’s foul sent Washington to the line for two free throws to put the game away.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2022
• Smith tried to bunt against a shifted infield, pushed it foul, then struck out.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 May 2022
• Brooks was assessed a Flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2022
• The try rolled foul, but Ramírez reached base anyway, lining a double to left.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2022
• After Acuña protested in right, the umpires huddled and called the ball foul.
  — Charles Odum, sun-sentinel.com, 4 July 2021
• Kuminga can be a bit foul-prone against crafty scorers.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2022
• Báez was close to hitting a homer off Reyes, but the ball snuck just foul and was upheld by review.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
• That and the fact that the latex was used to construct foul-looking, dismembered body parts.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
• The former Oregon Ducks guard Brooks was hit with a flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game.
  — oregonlive, 5 May 2022
• The Celtics were hitting shots, but something smelled foul from the beginning.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• But the Tigers erased the Beavers’ 1-0 lead when Djeffal’s foul in the box resulted in a penalty kick.
  — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2021
• Cano stayed in the box and hung in against a breaking ball, pulling it foul but swinging with confidence.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Now the threat was the foul-smelling dust kicked up by the demolition, which left her coughing and wheezing.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• No foul was called during the game, and the suspension was handed down later that evening.
  — David Thompson, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
• With a screen from Fontecchio, Alexander-Walker had a clear lane to the hoop, and seemed destined to take the gimme layup, and play the foul-and-extend game.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022

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