FOOT in a Sentence

Learn FOOT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
321 example sentences for FOOT, such as:
1. One foot is better than two crutches.
2. He shifted his weight onto his back foot.
3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
4. Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
5. Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FOOT
foot
 n.  lowest support of a structure
 n.  the lower part of anything
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "Good night, Matt," he said as she put her foot on the first step of the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  As soon as the sledge was loaded he meant to send Jotham back to the farm and hurry on foot into the village to buy the glue for the pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  Ethan's long strides grew more rapid with the accelerated beat of his thoughts, and as he reached the foot of School House Hill he caught sight of Hale's sleigh in the distance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  He went to the foot of the stairs and listened.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  "It was right there I found your locket," he said, pushing his foot into a dense tuft of blueberry bushes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  I don't believe but what you're the only stranger has set foot in that house for over twenty years.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  She sat down wearily, tucking one foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  In his own mind, there had never been any doubt that he belonged, from the moment he first set foot on Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Every foot of ground, every tree and brook, every lane and bridle path reminded her of him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  She looked across the floor and tapped her foot to the music and her green eyes blazed so eagerly that they fairly snapped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (111 in 8 pages)
1  A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
2  She hopped across the room because she had hurt her foot.
3  It was the first time I had set foot on African soil.
4  Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.
5  Well, I'm not going home on foot, at any rate.
6  Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.
7  The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.
8  Her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes.
9  The fruit - picker in the tree passed the fruit to the man who stood at the foot with a basket.
10  Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
11  One foot is better than two crutches.
12  He who wants a mule without fault, must walk on foot.
13  The best way to explore the countryside is on foot.
14  He shifted his weight onto his back foot.
15  She shifted her weight from one foot to the other.