foreign - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • currency: Over £ 100 million of foreign currency is currently lying around in UK homes.
  • language: Teaching history in a foreign language: what language?
  • minister: Geoffrey Howe, Britain's foreign minister, was explicit.
  • policy: We often look on the United States in very negative ways due to their foreign policy.
  • investor: Moreover, foreign investors have been more cautious about jumping into the Polish market recently.
  • investment: Cuba: Limiting foreign investment of joint enterprises to 49 per cent.

Modifying Another Word

  • totally: This technology is totally foreign to the agricultural trade.
  • entirely: Eventually some people could feel that the world is communicating in an entirely foreign medium.
  • completely: Rather than being completely foreign and exotic, it belongs to the Mediterranean cultural area, common to all heirs of the Greek legacy.
  • then: My noble Friend accompanied the then Foreign Secretary ( Mr.
  • very: This idea is very foreign to us in our society and yet it is basic to our understanding of Scripture.
  • not: Im not foreign either so dont bring ethnics into it smartass.

Used with adjective complement

  • sell: Is it legal to sell foreign Coca-Cola in the UK?

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