FOOTPRINT in a Sentence

Learn FOOTPRINT 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.

15 example sentences for FOOTPRINT, such as:

1. That change in the footprints, for example.
2. He could identify any animal from its footprints.
3. His footprints were clearly evident in the heavy dust.
4. When I went upstairs with him he pointed to several footprints upon the light carpet.
5. Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOOTPRINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
footprint
 n.  a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important
 n.  the area taken up by some object
Classic Sentence:
1  No, Watson, I fear that I could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
2  Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  That change in the footprints, for example.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
4  When I went upstairs with him he pointed to several footprints upon the light carpet.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
5  Nothing had been touched or taken, but there were the footprints to prove that the intrusion was an undoubted fact.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
6  There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
7  Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
8  First of all I regain the walls and the dim gateway whence my steps had issued; I scan and follow back my footprints with searching gaze in the night.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
9  And these, that there should be no straightforward footprints, he dragged by the tail into his cavern, the track of their compelled path reversed, and hid them behind the screen of rock.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
10  Lookyhere, Huck, there's footprints and some candle-grease on the clay about one side of this rock, but not on the other sides.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  His footprints were clearly evident in the heavy dust.
2  The climber, get past the footprints are unfortunately, lost to forward direction is very dangerous.
3  The footprints are quite distinct; they must be fresh.
4  He could identify any animal from its footprints.