Used in a Sentence

foley

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for foley.

Editorial note

Validated by a few other insiders, including Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren (The Verge), and Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet).

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of foley gathered in one view.

noun

A city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

noun

A city, the county seat of Benton County, Minnesota, United States.

noun

A city in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for foley.

noun

A city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

noun

A city, the county seat of Benton County, Minnesota, United States.

noun

A city in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.

noun

A surname from Irish.

Example sentences

1

Validated by a few other insiders, including Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren (The Verge), and Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet).

2

The recently butchered James Foley said he'd cover local planning commission meetings if that was his last professional option.

3

The foley artists did a pretty terrific job of using sound to differentiate between heavy computation, success, and failure etc.

4

Think about what good foley means to you.

5

At the high end you can hire a sound designer to do custom foley/SFX.

6

Ask ex-Speaker of the House Tom Foley about our power (first Speaker to be turned out of office since the Civil War in 1862).

7

Mary Jo Foley is a well-known Microsoft reporter and has been for a lonnnnnng time (I would bet on 15 years without Googling).

8

Finding where James Foley was executed is less interesting.

9

With apologies to this guy, I found the foley in Breaking Bad...

10

I think foley too often gets short shrift as an art.

11

I watched the live demo and was really excited about this and Mary Jo Foley and Paul Thurrot got to use it and are really excited about this.

12

My friend Danny made the music but otherwise all programming, artwork and original sound engineering/foley was done by me in basically two serious weekends ( one in matthew's office).

Quote examples

1

It seems to track people from their heartbeats." "Oh, how's it do that?" Foley asked.

2

The video being "suppressed" is of the gruesome, intimidating murder of James Foley, a journalist who risked his life for a profession dedicated to 1st amendment principles.

3

If you're interested in writing a renderer yourself (which is obviously way cooler than using some tools), I'd recommend first picking up either "Fundamentals of Computer Graphics" by Shirley and Marschner or "Computer Graphics: Principles & Practices" by Foley and Van Dam.

Proper noun examples

1

I wanted to do something similar with the video of James Foley, but I figured there was people smarter than me already doing that and I really didn't want to watch that video.

2

Even books I would've very much liked to have finished and I found interesting, such as Mick Foley's Have a Nice Day!, his autobiography about breaking in to the wrestling business, I have not been able to finish.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use foley in a sentence?

Validated by a few other insiders, including Paul Thurrott, Tom Warren (The Verge), and Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet).

What does foley mean?

A city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

What part of speech is foley?

foley is commonly used as noun.