How to Use tinfoil in a Sentence

tinfoil

noun

• Wrap the leftover food in tinfoil.
• When the crane comes from the oven, peel off the tinfoil and the feathered skin.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
• Tinfoil locks in the heat, while parchment keeps things nice and tidy.
  — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 31 Jan. 2017
• Two teenagers were burning something that looked like tinfoil in the back of the bus.
  — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022
• Now the sidewalks are clean and void of needles, trash and tinfoil.
  — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
• Fox News might be more suited for the tinfoil hat types.
  — Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
• On top of it are two objects wrapped in tinfoil, each about the size of a small bullet.
  — Henry Nicholls, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• Wrap the tinfoil completely around the chips in a packet like a tamale.
  — Joe Difazio, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• The sun will shine through the small hole in the tinfoil and will be projected on the paper below.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Put the orange top back on like a lid, wrap the whole thing in tinfoil, and bake in the campfire for ten minutes.
  — Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 22 June 2020
• Jack Hotel was over at an old desk, setting fire to a pipe, the bowl of which was wrapped in tinfoil.
  — Denis Johnson, Esquire, 26 May 2017
• From his spot on the porch, Pimentel could see the tinfoil blocking the apartment windows to keep out the heat.
  — Eli Saslow, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• The old friend went to his car and brought out a black container that had tinfoil and white powder.
  — cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
• His boat is a piece of tinfoil that covers the bottom part of the brisket and comes up over the sides by a couple inches.
  — Outside Online, 3 Nov. 2020
• Thus our afternoon with the memory box, the playlist, the tinfoil boat.
  — M. Boone Mattia, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• And every year, the baby’s mother would wrap a slice of birthday cake in tinfoil and freeze it.
  — Frances Robles, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• Here’s how: Set your oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with tinfoil for easy cleanup.
  — Susan Russo, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Then again, with the draft only a few days away, who isn’t already wearing a tinfoil hat?
  — Demetrio Teniente, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
• Some keep warm by wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes, like marathon runners with their tinfoil sheets.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2021
• In Villa’s lab, Lindsey Young, a postdoc, showed me a dish of what looked like tiny holes punched out of tinfoil.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• An orange candy wrapped in tinfoil and left in a car for most of an afternoon.
  — Caity Weaver, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
• The tree, a three-story creation of green tinfoil and lights that towers over the church sanctuary, will not be built.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• Before QAnon, there was that tinfoil-hat document called the Steele dossier.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 May 2021
• In the clip, Johnson keeps his eyes closed while his daughter stands in front of him holding a piece of tinfoil with a glob of peanut butter in the center.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 24 Jan. 2022
• My mother had artfully fashioned a crown out of tinfoil and draped it with one of her necklaces to give it a bit of glitz.
  — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• He's spoken recently to that person who told him to take off his tinfoil hat in 2020.
  — Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• Put tinfoil hat base on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  — Julia Sherman, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• So does that mean that your crazy uncle with the tinfoil hat has been right all this time about an impending alien invasion?
  — Doug Criss, CNN, 19 Sep. 2019
• Aluminum trim and roofing looked like so much crumpled tinfoil.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Female shop mannequins have been beheaded or their heads wrapped in tinfoil.
  — Christina Goldbaum, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024