FOOTSTEP in a Sentence

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182 example sentences for FOOTSTEP, such as:

1. You tread behind his every footstep.
2. The falling snow muffled the sound of our footsteps.
3. The sound of the heavy footsteps awoke the watchdog.
4. They heard footsteps in the main room, beyond a door.
5. Their quick ears caught the sound of an approaching footstep.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOOTSTEP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
footstep
 n.  the distance covered by a step
 n.  the act of taking a step in walking
Classic Sentence: (176 in 12 pages)
1  You tread behind his every footstep.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
2  But now, Pearl, I hear a footstep along the path, and the noise of one putting aside the branches.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
3  A fox, startled from his sleep by her light footstep on the leaves, looked inquisitively at Pearl, as doubting whether it were better to steal off, or renew his nap on the same spot.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
4  During the whole interval, whenever I went to the bottom of the staircase, I heard her footstep, saw her light pass above, and heard her ceaseless low cry.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVIII
5  The sound was curiously flawed by the wind; and I was listening, and thinking how the wind assailed and tore it, when I heard a footstep on the stair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
6  What nervous folly made me start, and awfully connect it with the footstep of my dead sister, matters not.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
7  It was past in a moment, and I listened again, and heard the footstep stumble in coming on.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
8  I started at every footstep and every sound, believing that he was discovered and taken, and this was the messenger to tell me so.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
9  Mr. Omer, hearing his daughter's footstep before I heard it, touched me with his pipe, and shut up one eye, as a caution.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
10  Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
11  From the outside of his home he gloomily passed to the inside, with suspended breath and with a slow footstep.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
12  With a footstep as soft and gentle as the voice, the speaker tripped away.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Their quick ears caught the sound of an approaching footstep.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
14  He sat without changing his attitude in the least, or appearing to take the smallest heed of time, until his quick ear seemed to be attracted by a footstep in the street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  Eustacia had not been long indoors after her look at the moonlight when a soft footstep came up to the house, and Thomasin was announced by the woman downstairs.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
Example Sentence:
1  They heard footsteps in the main room, beyond a door.
2  Her finger tightened on the trigger as she heard footsteps approaching.
3  The sound of the heavy footsteps awoke the watchdog.
4  He heard the sound of heavy, dragging footsteps in the corridor.
5  The falling snow muffled the sound of our footsteps.
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