How to Use foot in a Sentence

foot

1 of 2 noun

• They camped at the foot of the mountain.
• The people in the crowd began to stamp their feet.
• He was wearing boots on his feet.
• Reid knows that the gain of six feet isn’t worth risking the loss of God’s arm.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• There was a dance with a lot of feet movement and a lot of praise to God.
  — Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The house is about 1,200 square feet and has one floor with an attic.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• Or, choose a pair of sneakers to slide on your feet, like these $30 Levi’s.
  — Ariel Scotti, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2023
• Up to two feet of snow lined the roadway, deeper in some places.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2023
• But the largest, Quetzalcoatlus, had a bus-sized wingspan of 37 to 40 feet.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2023
• The fish measured over 112 inches, or just over 9 feet long.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
• Each dimmable light strip stretches 5 feet and can be set to a timer to give them more or less time to move around the room.
  — Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
• The modern home spans 4,000 square feet and has four en-suite bedrooms.
  — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2024
• However, the athlete missed the net with her right foot shot sending the ball over the crossbar.
  — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
• The stone Tudor mansion has six bedrooms, four baths and close to 5,000 square feet.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
• Snow gestured to the bird keeping watch a few feet away, even as the parking lot emptied.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Heated floors to ensure your feet are warm all year round!
  — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 1 Mar. 2024
• The conserved water is enough to raise the reservoir’s level 1.5 feet.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Just pop them on when your flight takes off, and feel lighter on your feet upon arrival.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2023
• On one of O’Connell’s first days in a shelter, a nurse told him to put his stethoscope away and start soaking feet.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 29 Dec. 2023
• The woman was carried 1,500 feet — the entire length of the Empire State Building.
  — Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 6 Feb. 2024
• Speaking of scenery, an even slower way to enjoy it is on foot.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• And on the dive thousands of feet towards the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean, life inside can go from hot to cold, too.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 22 June 2023
• In an intriguing twist on the title, the cover art features the singer in the water, just feet away from a shark.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
• Surrounded by debris, the ship’s two main pieces are around 2,000 feet apart.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 17 May 2023
• The one-acre lot includes 80 feet of waterfront, a boathouse and a private pier with boat lifts.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2023
• As the lawyer spoke, Dunn found her gaze drawn to Smokes, who sat a few feet away, celebrating with loved ones.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2024
• Prepare to be emotionally gut-punched and swept off your feet at the same time.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 26 May 2023
• Thwaites—aka the Doomsday Glacier—could alone add 2 feet of sea level rise.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• But the water is so murky that salvage divers can’t see more than one to two feet in front of them, Gov. Wes Moore said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
• The poles are anchored sixteen feet into the water bed and extend several feet above the surface; the floating concrete foundation is fastened to the poles with rings.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

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foot

2 of 2 verb

• I'll foot the bill for dinner.
• Bring right hand and foot back down to the floor and repeat on the other side.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
• In the race to decarbonize the world by 2050, who’s going to foot the bill?
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2021
• Kyiv’s allies in the West want Russia to foot that bill.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• The rich men were then left to foot the bill, as has always been the way in this model-mortal food chain.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
• Gait, or the way a person walks, is paramount to foot health, which can have a ripple effect on the body.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• The federal government foots 90% of the bill for expansion, with the state left to pick up the rest.
  — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Keep the knees together and raise your right calf and foot a few inches off your left leg.
  — Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 1 Nov. 2022
• Stronach’s appetite to foot that kind of bill is largely unknown.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 Mar. 2024
• Maezawa and Hirano are the second set, but first to foot their own bill since 2009.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• Oceanco, and not the city, will foot the cost of the bridge demolition, van Heijst said.
  — Time, 3 Feb. 2022
• The building may agree that an upgrade is necessary and foot the bill.
  — Kalina Newman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• In the meantime, gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups foot the bill.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 26 Sep. 2022
• The question of who will take care of older Americans, and who will foot the bill, keep many awake at night.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• So loud that on a recent visit, the host can’t help but sway her hips and shuffle from foot to foot behind the host stand.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Once this period lapses, buyers will foot part of the cost.
  — Deirdre Mundorf, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
• But the current bond level is not enough to cap and clean them, leaving taxpayers to foot the costs.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• There is also a recommendation that Drax foot some of the bill for these plans.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 29 Nov. 2022
• Just note that the 15-20mmHg rating may not be quite enough compression for anyone prone to foot swelling or very tired feet.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2023
• The fire department will foot most of the bill ― around $11 million ― while the health department's share is around $1 million.
  — Claudia Levens, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
• Workers pay $5,969 of that amount, while employers foot the rest.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 21 Nov. 2021
• The state covers the cost of the training course through a grant, but districts foot the bill for employees’ travel to sessions.
  — Emily Donaldson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2022
• Guaranteed to strip your feet of their skin and return back to a baby foot soft state of being, pick up this pack now for a low price of $37.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 14 July 2022
• The fire caused $47.5 million in damage, and royalists clashed with the public over who would foot the bill for repairs.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 9 Nov. 2022
• The cost of doing this on a broad scale would be enormous, and likely would require taxpayers footing part of the bill.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2023
• The Theranos scam co-conspirators have to foot a huge bill for their crimes.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 May 2023
• Zachry would foot the bill for a parking garage the city was originally going to pay $59.5 million to build.
  — Madison Iszler, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022
• And obviously Ukraine's success in here relies in large part on the United States footing a lot of the bill.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 July 2023
• If a doctor orders the kind of coronavirus test that’s processed by a lab, Medicare will foot the bill.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Even if parents are helping foot the college bill (or just applying pressure), the drive for a double major often comes from within.
  — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024