How to Use foible in a Sentence

foible

noun
  • And people loved him for his for his strengths and for his foibles.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 20 May 2025
  • Fudging on size isn't just a human foible.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Maybe there is a future show in store on the foibles of cunnilingus.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 July 2019
  • All the recent hit shows are about human beings with all their foibles.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The defense also had some high-profile foibles.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But builders do admit to some foibles familiar to anyone who has built their own home.
    — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 27 July 2017
  • Their focus, however, is very much the foibles and malaise of the modern age.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But better to shrug off old friends’ harmless foibles than assign them mean labels.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Still, some of these foibles are easier to forgive when seen in service of the greater good.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Their foibles are well-documented, and frankly rather boring at this point.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • Both women must adapt to each other’s perspective and foibles, and each grows in the process.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Now, hearing about the new restaurant’s foibles, Dudas sighed.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
  • Mr Rees-Mogg is not so much a person as a collection of foibles.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • If not for some red zone foibles, Kansas City would have won by an outsized margin.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • His tendencies and foibles are well known to voters, politicians, and world leaders.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There were triumphs and trials, feats and foibles, delights and disasters.
    — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • His foibles in the playoffs came to fruition while trying to guard Joel Embiid.
    — Tom Rende, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • When the wedding goes south, all their romantic lives get entangled and the show follows their foibles and flings.
    — Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Each of their characters has their foibles but neither ever leans unlikable.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 June 2026
  • So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, literature will outlast the foibles of misguided mortals.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Kuper, as a man who has lived in many different countries, writes well about the cultures and foibles of soccer teams and their fans.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Parker and Church keep this darkly comic take on the foibles of modern life relatable.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 28 May 2017
  • The second successfully put its whole focus on addressing the foibles of the first.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The second successfully put its whole focus on addressing the foibles of the first.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The music gets the chance to define the characters’ desires and foibles, just as the performances do.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
  • But pro-Brexit voters, who have overlooked many a Johnson foible, might not forgive him for that one.
    — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Every night, Kaci and I had candlelit dinners, laughed over our little foibles, flirted and slept.
    — Rebecca Collins Jordan, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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

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