"useful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yeltsin was a useful foil.
- To Mr. Pataki's aides, the majority leader was a useful foil whose sincere but sometimes wild-eyed desire to wipe away rent control made the Governor seem moderate by comparison.
- Yet in their rigid allegiance to the grid, these projects are a useful foil to the more adventurous work.
- A useful foil for bright flowers.
- And he has also emerged as a useful political foil for President Bush.
- Miss Yeager's sylph had a great deal of hip swaying and yet her mannered coquettishness was a useful foil to Mr. Bocca's simplicity.
- A wagon full of belongings made a useful foil.
- More likely overly ambitious--but even then, he could have proved a useful foil for us, to keep the king's attention whiles we came up behind.
- Zimivic could never be called an ally, but he might make a useful foil.
- All three presidential bad boys have found an especially useful foil in the Bush administration, with its eager resort to American might.
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