How to Use tinfoil in a Sentence

tinfoil

noun
  • Wrap the leftover food in tinfoil.
  • Feed me memes and tinfoil and old-timey film strips.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 6 May 2026
  • But all of us put the tinfoil hat on from time to time.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Tinfoil locks in the heat, while parchment keeps things nice and tidy.
    — Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit, 31 Jan. 2017
  • As the driver got out of the truck, a small piece of tinfoil fell off him.
    — cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Now the sidewalks are clean and void of needles, trash and tinfoil.
    — oregonlive, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Two teenagers were burning something that looked like tinfoil in the back of the bus.
    — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022
  • 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
  • Put tinfoil hat base on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
    — Julia Sherman, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • The old friend went to his car and brought out a black container that had tinfoil and white powder.
    — cleveland, 18 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • If breast is getting too dark toward the end of cooking, place a piece of tinfoil over top to shield it.
    — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • An orange candy wrapped in tinfoil and left in a car for most of an afternoon.
    — Caity Weaver, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Burned tinfoil and a baggie with methamphetamine were found in the main-level bathroom.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 26 May 2026
  • Thus our afternoon with the memory box, the playlist, the tinfoil boat.
    — M. Boone Mattia, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Once cooled, the pie is ready to be wrapped tightly with plastic wrap and/or tinfoil before being frozen.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Smaller tinfoil pans became my secret weapon.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Edison’s version used a needle to etch sound waves on a sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a metal cylinder.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most were lying on kindergarten-style napping mats on the floor, covered with thin, tinfoil blankets.
    — Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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 cat chases after the tinfoil ball and retrieves it back to the owner both times, carrying it in its mouth.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2023

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