How to Use fig leaf in a Sentence

fig leaf

noun

• Opponents claim that the humanitarian goals of the project are just a fig leaf, and that its real purpose is to make money.
• The ice cream is served with fig leaf oil and whipped blood orange.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appetit, 28 Feb. 2018
• But the fig leaf of the peace process and the two-state solution is drying up.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• It was swathed in a warm pear green and a cheerful fig leaf plant sat in the corner.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2023
• But the use of the pro-life cause as a fig leaf is especially galling to me.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Dec. 2017
• But that fig leaf is going to be pretty hard to shake loose.
  — Fox News, 19 May 2018
• Aware of being stark naked, Darren moved his hands to form a fig leaf.
  — Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• In the end, the actions taken by Facebook and Twitter are a fig leaf.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Oct. 2020
• The reception room was swathed in a warm pear green and a cheerful fig leaf plant sat in the corner.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 12 July 2022
• Critics warn that the Greens risk becoming a fig leaf for Mr. Kurz’s hard right agenda.
  — Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
• The scent opens with fig leaf and fig fruit, followed by coconut mixed with sumptuous green notes.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• My meal concludes with a summery fig leaf ice cream churned from Nature’s Fynd cream cheese.
  — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
• The gesture felt defensive, as a virtuous fig leaf on the fair’s naked avarice.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• And while the Armory intends to broadcast the results, some day, in a yet-to-be-determined way, the filming was a bit of a fig leaf.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• Desert was a white chocolate and yuzu sorbet with fig leaf and hibiscus.
  — Everett Potter, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Wrap each portion of fish individually in a fig leaf, folding the edges of the leaf over the fish.
  — Deb Wandell, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
• But to the theory’s adherents, the lock-step maneuvers by the Fed and the government were not the arrival of a far-out idea but the removal of a fig leaf.
  — Matt Phillips, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Both men and women wear a green apron embroidered with a fig leaf pattern, to represent Adam and Eve.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• While this may be true, this excuse was more of a fig leaf to cover up the Army’s troubles in fielding a scout/attack helicopter.
  — Mike Hirschberg, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• The court’s critics on the left have often argued that this is a mere fig leaf for the conservatives’ preferred outcome.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 June 2022
• This recipe originally called for enveloping the fish in fig leaves.
  — Rochelle Bilow, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
• Plus: fig leaf ice cream, a hotel in the hills of Majorca and more from T’s cultural compendium.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2023
• Give or take a fig leaf or two, the likely successor to the topless craze — already four years old — adds up to complete nudity.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• The set includes 60 pods and is offered fragrance-free, as well as in three scents: tangerine lemon grass, thyme fig leaf, and red pear with magnolia.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2022
• The set includes 60 pods and is offered fragrance-free, as well as in three scents: tangerine lemon grass, thyme fig leaf, and red pear with magnolia.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Oct. 2023
• Likewise, the fig leaf of Arab unity and solidarity withered up and blew away years ago.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
• The restaurant logo, a fig leaf, is a tribute to Maggio’s nonno, or grandpa, who emigrated from Italy to the Midwest in the 1950s.
  — Lydia Morrell, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
• Instead there were simple round pie crusts, artfully scored with designs of apricot and fig leaves.
  — al, 7 Jan. 2020
• But to Meiklejohn, this seemed like an inherently dangerous sort of fig leaf to hide behind.
  — Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Critics say the entire process is a fig leaf of democracy, designed to give the appearance of competition in a system where none exists.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024