foy

chiefly Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for foy
Noun
  • These accounts may include a government contribution of up to $1,000 for babies born between 2025 and 2028, as outlined in Investopedia, and allow families to contribute up to $5,000 annually.
    Brian Menickella, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Outside of his contributions to the league, Irsay also made headlines for his personal life.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The grant would have funded an educational project called ‘Seeking a More Perfect Union, ’ said Haynes.
    Zuri Primos, Kansas City Star, 31 May 2025
  • The village of Streamwood is also receiving a grant for more than $1.5 million to build a 1.1-mile, 10-foot-wide multiuse path along Irving Park Road.
    Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • From assembling care packages to organizing donation drives, students and staff are finding creative ways to contribute to recovery efforts hundreds of miles away.
    Ella Polak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Vaccarella and her husband Rosario donated the cosmetically defective bags as part of a care package for people impacted by the storm.
    Nicolas Vega,Raffi Paul, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Those celebrating also pay zakat al-fitr, an alms-tax that goes towards those in need.
    Juliana LaBianca, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In 2007, amid rising fuel prices and yet another economic crisis, Buddhist monks led mass protests in Yangon and other cities, overturning their alms bowls to signal disenchantment with the military junta.
    Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
Noun
  • In other words, the format still isn’t giving women even a tithe.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2025
  • Congregants say they were required to pay a minimum of 10 percent of their income in tithes.
    Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • To forget or exceed herself takes the form of erotic dissolution and spiritual oblation.
    Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His father also contributed to oblation research in 1988.
    Hannah Drown, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • Under the original version of the ACA, middle-income households were often priced out of the health-care subsidies.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 23 May 2025
  • The air board said the third and final round of subsidies will be distributed next year, in a single online giveaway of some 9,000 vouchers.
    Jeff Mcdonald, Mercury News, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • These subway entrances are on parkland, where offering or selling tickets is forbidden.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 May 2025
  • After 12 days packed to the gills with some of the best cinematic offerings to be found around the world, the jury of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival announced this edition's big winners.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 26 May 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Foy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foy. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!