foul - use in sentences

Object

  • propeller: Often the tow cable parted, fouled the propeller or the charge would prematurely explode!
  • pavement: Please visit our Dog Warden Services pages for more information regarding Dogs in the Boro What can I do about dogs fouling the pavements?
  • organism: Effects on commercial interests It is a fouling organism.
  • litter: Are you fed up with a local issue, pavements, dog fouling, litter, speeding traffic?
  • bin: The dog fouling bin is in the process of being installed on Oxford Meadow.

Converse of object

  • commit: Only Burnley having a worse record although it was just on fouls committed and not cards shown.

Preposition: on

  • keeper: Wigg did bundle the ball into the net a few minutes later, but it was disallowed for a foul on the keeper.
  • footpath: A dog has fouled on the footpath - when will it be cleaned?
  • edge: A foul on the edge of the center circle gave Barnard the chance to come forward and pump the ball into the Billericay box.

Used with adjective complement

  • fall: She seems to have fallen foul heavily of the people editing her letters.
  • cry: Faced with this growing international movement, some have cried foul.
  • smell: It's quiet and dark in the bin and it smells foul, but there's a lot of noise outside.

Modifies a noun

  • sewer: There are three options: Disposal to the foul sewer may be possible with the prior arrangement of the local sewage provider.
  • stench: The badger put his bottom right up against the nest and let out the foulest stench that I have ever smelled.
  • odor: The only drawback is the foul odor meaning the dung can only be used on tracks in uninhabited areas!
  • sewage: The disposal of foul sewage shall be by means approved by the Local Planning Authority.
  • odor: B Bactericide Additive to inhibit bacterial growth in the aqueous component of fluids, preventing foul odors.
  • smell: In a MUD, I can say, there's a foul smell of decaying flesh emanating from the east.

Preposition: of

  • law: Yet objectively speaking that was a work of art that didn't fall foul of any British law.
  • legislation: Mr Noel Graham would be running the premises and when a previous owner of the premises did not fall foul of the legislation.

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