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Foy in a sentence

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Foy | Foyer | Foyle | Foyth | Foye | Foyers | Foynes | Foyt | Foyn

Foy meaning

  1. Faith, allegiance.
  2. A feast given by one about to leave a place.

Using Foy

  • The main meaning on this page is: Faith, allegiance. | A feast given by one about to leave a place.
  • In the example corpus, foy often appears in combinations such as: claire foy, foy and, foy as.

Context around Foy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

claire 7× barry 1× brooke 1× ciaran 1× kelly 1× mackenzie 1× originally 1× sarah 1× colleen 1×

Often after:

wants 2× plays 2× barry 1× teaches 1× inhabiting 1× meanwhile 1× gave 1× jamie 1× labour 1× jessica 1×

Sentence patterns with Foy

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

alongside this foy wants culturally 1× and claire foy 1× barry foy s field 1× brooke foy teaches this 1× but foy inhabiting elizabeth 1× claire foy and jamie 1× deryuck colleen foy frank martinelli 1× foy meanwhile has 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

alongside this foy 1× barry foy s 1× brooke foy teaches 1× but foy inhabiting 1× claire foy and 1× foy meanwhile has 1×

Common sentence endings:

and brian stanton 1× and claire foy 1× and olivia colman 1× anyone protecting him 1× assumptions and stereotypes 1× clean virginia fund 1×

Words around Foy

Just before it in the word index:

foxy 32 foxx 208 foxworthy 7 foxworth 9 foxwoods 12 foxwood 2

Just after it in the word index:

foye 7 foyer 140 foyers 6 foyle 47 foyn 2 foynes 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

abject 113 accumulations 113 adi 113 agnostic 113 airbase 113 aktiengesellschaft 113

Corpus analysis for Foy

  • In this selection, "foy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, claire, barry, brooke, wants, plays and barry stand out and add context to how "foy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include alongside this foy wants culturally and and claire foy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "foy" sits close to words such as abject, accumulations and adi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with foy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Originally, Foy wasn’t up for Salome in Women Talking. (10 words)

Foy plays the defiant Salome, a mother advocating that the women stand their ground. (14 words)

Barry Foy's Field Guide to the Irish Music Session defines a session as: Foy, Barry (2009). (17 words)

Longer example sentences

It would be tough for any director to follow this twisted dénouement, but helmer Ciaran Foy gave it a solid shot with 2015’s underperformed with audiences and critics, the sequel did do something admirably new with the franchise's premise. (41 words)

Mary Kelly Foy, Labour MP for City of Durham, said: “The City of Durham has become an NHS dental desert, leaving people without the means to pay for private care in a cost of living crisis without access to oral healthcare. (41 words)

Loosely based on the 1987 novel stars Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell, and Andrew Scott, but it's the latter whose performance may prove to be competition for Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2024 Oscars. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Barry Foy's Field Guide to the Irish Music Session defines a session as: Foy, Barry (2009).

Alongside this, Foy wants culturally responsive and diverse curriculums, as well as programs and events that allow students and staff to have deep cultural encounters.

Brooke Foy teaches this class on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

But Foy, inhabiting Elizabeth from 1947 to 1964, is instantly recognisable as the woman who would become Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

Claire Foy and Jamie Bell also star in the latest film from the “45 Years” director Andrew Haigh.

Foy, meanwhile, has raised $1.4 million — most of it, around $870,000, coming from the Clean Virginia Fund.

Foy plays Adam’s mother as a woman of her time but is still able to show that beam of love behind the homophobic assumptions and stereotypes.

Foy plays the defiant Salome, a mother advocating that the women stand their ground.

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He will also be seen in Andrew Haigh’s Strangers, which stars Andrew Scott and Claire Foy.

It would be tough for any director to follow this twisted dénouement, but helmer Ciaran Foy gave it a solid shot with 2015’s underperformed with audiences and critics, the sequel did do something admirably new with the franchise's premise.

Loosely based on the 1987 novel stars Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell, and Andrew Scott, but it's the latter whose performance may prove to be competition for Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2024 Oscars.

Mary Kelly Foy, Labour MP for City of Durham, said: “The City of Durham has become an NHS dental desert, leaving people without the means to pay for private care in a cost of living crisis without access to oral healthcare.

Murphy (Mackenzie Foy, Jessica Chastain) is just her father in some respects: she's a critical thinker who enjoys adventures.

Originally, Foy wasn’t up for Salome in Women Talking.

Sarah Foy, 23, one of the women involved, said: "Like anyone, animals want to live out their lives safely and without being used or exploited.

Speaking of royalty, The Crown’s Claire Foy and Lesley Manville (aka the first Queen Elizabeth II and the third Princess Margaret) will be looking into their histories.

The cast features (in alphabetical order) Dana Deryuck, Colleen Foy, Frank Martinelli, Gabriel Oliva, and Brian Stanton.

While Mariche (Jessie Buckley) is a lonely voice for the status quo, Salome (Claire Foy) wants Biblical justice for whoever raped her 4-year-old daughter and anyone protecting him.

You can expect strong performances from Claire Foy, of Netflix's The Crown, and WandaVision's Paul Bettany.

And out of that came a sense that we might see the previous iterations of the queen in Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.

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Common combinations with foy

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "foy" in a sentence?
An example: "Barry Foy's Field Guide to the Irish Music Session defines a session as: Foy, Barry (2009)." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "foy" from authentic English texts.
What does "foy" mean?
Foy means: Faith, allegiance.
How many example sentences with "foy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "foy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.