Get Free Checker

foolscap

[ UK /fˈuːlskæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a size of paper used especially in Britain

How To Use foolscap In A Sentence

  • The menu is a single page of foolscap, but what a page!
  • Just stumbled over the 'foolscap' comment, some months after you wrote it. Languagehat.com: FOOLSCAP.
  • he was still rumbling discontentedly when Pike returned bearing a folder of foolscap sheets
  • A music journalist in front of me rips out a sheet of foolscap paper and spills himself on it.
  • Jack was furious when I put that blank piece of foolscap, headed Our Achievements, on the Bute House cabinet table.
  • William Hunter kept a complete record of the process, occupying eighteen sheets of foolscap in a hurried hand.
  • The next day I bought two sheets of foolscap from the schoolmaster, and after tea I betook myself to the granary, barred the door, and fell to writing my sermon. The Story Girl
  • Ephemera - postcards, letters on onionskin foolscap, newspaper clippings - are tucked into the pages and offer narrative clues. Times, Sunday Times
  • One writer swears by always writing longhand in foolscap paper in fluorescent orange colours.
  • Two sheets of foolscap had been pinned on the noticeboard in Hall for any specially wanted hymns. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
View all