How to Use tinfoil in a Sentence
tinfoil
noun- Wrap the leftover food in tinfoil.
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When the crane comes from the oven, peel off the tinfoil and the feathered skin.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2018
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Tinfoil locks in the heat, while parchment keeps things nice and tidy.
—Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 31 Jan. 2017
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Two teenagers were burning something that looked like tinfoil in the back of the bus.
—Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022
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Now the sidewalks are clean and void of needles, trash and tinfoil.
—oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
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Fox News might be more suited for the tinfoil hat types.
—Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
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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
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Wrap the tinfoil completely around the chips in a packet like a tamale.
—Joe Difazio, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
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The sun will shine through the small hole in the tinfoil and will be projected on the paper below.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
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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
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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
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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
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The old friend went to his car and brought out a black container that had tinfoil and white powder.
—cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
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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
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Thus our afternoon with the memory box, the playlist, the tinfoil boat.
—M. Boone Mattia, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Some keep warm by wrapping themselves in the Stars and Stripes, like marathon runners with their tinfoil sheets.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2021
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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
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An orange candy wrapped in tinfoil and left in a car for most of an afternoon.
—Caity Weaver, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
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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
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Before QAnon, there was that tinfoil-hat document called the Steele dossier.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 13 May 2021
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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
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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
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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
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Put tinfoil hat base on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
—Julia Sherman, New York Times, 22 June 2018
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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
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Aluminum trim and roofing looked like so much crumpled tinfoil.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
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Female shop mannequins have been beheaded or their heads wrapped in tinfoil.
—Christina Goldbaum, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
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