How to Use foist in a Sentence

foist

verb
  • Redmond is no longer trying to foist phones on consumers who don’t want them.
    — David Pierce, WIRED, 12 May 2017
  • But avoid the temptation to foist too much off into the future.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The Spurs will get it, even if that result has been foisted upon them.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • But the Browns should foist this game squarely on Maye’s shoulders.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has mastered both ducking blame and foisting it on others.
    — Sarah Binder, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • Low-pressure regions pull warmer, wet air in toward them and then foist it upward.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The deal implies that blue states will foist more Keynes on their people, the red states quite a bit less.
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • The cost is foisted off on the commons, in the form of a parking spot occupied all day.
    — Rodney Brooks, IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2017
  • Or maybe the problem has been the talent foisted on the coach by the management wonks.
    — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
  • Trump also appeared to foist some of the blame for the heightened tension on Democrats.
    — Ella Nilsen, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
  • The frightened disciples awakened him, trying to foist their fear on him.
    — Constance B. Wallingford, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2025
  • People canceled their flights and then airlines dragged their feet on the refunds or tried to foist a credit on them.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Now, this doesn’t mean that people should spend their work life foisting their politics on their co-workers.
    — Roxane Gay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • But the comedy dies as her new husband foists himself upon her, in the tub and then on the bathroom floor.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Democrats are going to try to figure out how to salvage the public good out of the wreckage just foist upon us.
    — John Parkinson, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Long delays will mean shippers will be trying to foist mushy brown bananas on consumers who might reject them.
    — Anna Nagurney, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Fleck would, of course, avoid the thornier elements foisted on Richard Pitino last decade.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Many people will discuss this as a faltering of culture and will foist blame on leadership.
    — Thomas Bradley Cox, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Or perhaps confirm the limits even much of his own fan base foists upon the program no matter who would be running it.
    — Eric Hansen, Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Linda’s life is constructed of problems not of her own creation but foisted upon her.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • But places like Wal-Mart sell ugly produce at a discount, while you were foisted off full price, no choice.
    — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
  • All the scientists and post-docs are colluding to foist this scam, in order to win a few ten-thousand dollar grants.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2010
  • The fear is that omicron will foist even more patients, and perhaps sicker ones, onto hospitals.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • No foisting me on another mother too overwhelmed to notice.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The Iraq war was not foisted on the United States by conflict-craving zealots.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The launch of a new console could serve as a good excuse for Nintendo to foist a price increase onto consumers.
    — Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2025
  • These are the opposite of films that are being foisted on the American public.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • There is also good reason to question the urgency with which this decision is being foisted on the city.
    — Mark Lamster architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Mr Hu and Mr Jiang had to work with successors who had been foisted on them by party elders.
    — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The women are often gaudy in the short, tight, adolescent garb that some salesperson has foisted upon them, and their gray hair is bobbed.
    — Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024

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