How to Use foible in a Sentence

foible

noun

• The design looks snazzy, but is filled with a few foibles.
  — Gary Gastelu, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• For all his foibles, Lando does treat her like an equal.
  — Emily Zemler, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Maybe there is a future show in store on the foibles of cunnilingus.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 July 2019
• Part of that is just due to all sorts of foibles in the way that human beings reason.
  — Alex Kingsbury, BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2018
• In sketch, the person’s doomed to keep repeating their own foibles.
  — Vanessa Chow, Glamour, 26 June 2018
• Their focus, however, is very much the foibles and malaise of the modern age.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
• To date, Republicans have stood by Trump or at least stayed silent in the face of his many foibles.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 15 May 2017
• Mr Rees-Mogg is not so much a person as a collection of foibles.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• All the recent hit shows are about human beings with all their foibles.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• The foibles of three drag queens traveling cross-country.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 25 July 2019
• But my least favorite foible is the game’s dialogue wheel.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
• Now, hearing about the new restaurant’s foibles, Dudas sighed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• The soccer chat, from my foibles in the LXC coed rec league to our rooting interests, starts at 21:40.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2017
• The vast majority of these are harmless foibles—but not all.
  — Jack Ashby, Smithsonian, 20 Dec. 2017
• The original Victor Frankenstein, for all his foibles, at least had the good sense to fear his own creation.
  — Joey Eschrich, Slate Magazine, 24 Jan. 2017
• There may be some truth to that: Netanyahu and Lieberman have known each other, and each other’s foibles, for many years.
  — Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2019
• A pair of Mafia lieutenants, filling a jerry can at a Naples gas station, pass the time discussing the foibles of modern youth.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
• But builders do admit to some foibles familiar to anyone who has built their own home.
  — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 27 July 2017
• Meanwhile, their friends have romantic foibles of their own.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• But better to shrug off old friends’ harmless foibles than assign them mean labels.
  — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• If its walls could talk, there would be no shortage of famed foibles and once-in-a-lifetime gatherings that read like a celebrity mad-lib.
  — Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 7 May 2024
• Their foibles are well-documented, and frankly rather boring at this point.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• His method relies on a fixation with the foibles of the left, combined with blotting Trump and the entire American right out of his mind.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Feb. 2018
• Jones happily recites the joke using the other word, and the two men laugh, having been caught in a foible of their profession.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• In a few instances, that sharing has exposed some of Hilton's parenting foibles and the social media-sphere has been quick to pounce.
  — Mia Taylor, Parents, 30 May 2024
• But pro-Brexit voters, who have overlooked many a Johnson foible, might not forgive him for that one.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• Often cast as a radio bad boy and open about his foibles, McNeil twice has been an on-air of one of Chicago’s best-known sports radio teams.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• In a world obsessed with human foibles (and books about them), why wouldn’t politicians believe that the public—cue Jack Nicholson—can’t handle the truth?
  — David Wolman, Wired, 27 Mar. 2020
• In real life, such human foibles are likely veiled behind the solemnity of religious tradition and the sacred import of what’s at stake.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024
• Unable to fully shift his thinking let alone his broader strategy, Trump seems determined to keep litigating perceived slights against his legacy and prosecuting the foibles of Biden.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024