Explore Foot through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like walk or support. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Foot meaning
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- Travel by walking.
Synonyms of Foot
Using Foot
- The main meaning on this page is: A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. | Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. | Travel by walking.
- Useful related words include: vertebrate foot, pedal extremity, walk, support.
- Possible Dutch translations are: voet, poot, pootje.
- In the example corpus, foot often appears in combinations such as: foot and, left foot, the foot.
Context around Foot
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foot
- In this selection, "foot" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, supporting, eight, tall, muscles and choir stand out and add context to how "foot" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 8 6 foot 6 and, a 25 foot by 70, left foot and square foot. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foot" sits close to words such as opportunities, straight and facing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foot
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Feel at ease under ten-foot ceilings, six-foot windows and eight-foot-tall doors. (15 words)
Buyers can choose from 5-foot-8, 6-foot-6, and 8-foot bed lengths. (15 words)
It can be a fifteen foot dolly track in VR, and therefore one foot equals one foot. (17 words)
Method The magician positions himself at an angle to his audience, a little distance away, in such a way that the audience can only see the rearward portion of one foot and most of the other foot – concealing the toe end of the "far" (upstage) foot. (46 words)
Simply put: the magician stands on the front of one foot, while raising the one foot and the visible part of his other foot, blocking the view of the front of the supporting foot with the other foot and rear part of the supporting foot. (45 words)
But when Andrew and Jason Julian, brother who live in Connecticut, bought the property, they began using it to process stone and even got a town permit to put up a 25 foot by 70 foot shed for equipment storage. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Simply put: the magician stands on the front of one foot, while raising the one foot and the visible part of his other foot, blocking the view of the front of the supporting foot with the other foot and rear part of the supporting foot.
Hop on your left foot again, bringing your right foot back behind your left foot and then shift your weight onto your right foot, leaving your left foot in the air.
Platzer (2004), p 256 The leg muscles acting on the foot are called the extrinsic foot muscles whilst the foot muscles located in the foot are called intrinsic.
Feel at ease under ten-foot ceilings, six-foot windows and eight-foot-tall doors.
Standing at only 5-foot-9 (the average player height today is 6-foot-6.5 inches), he soared above his competitors, dunking over players a foot taller than him.
Vegetation was cleared away to make way for a 56-foot long mural along a 6-foot-tall fence and a 50-by-11-foot-tall mural along a concrete retaining wall.
From the provincial high school ranks, Cheng speaks highly of 6-foot-2 guard Lorenzo Barbieri, from Brampton, 6-foot-4 guard Ziphion Grant, from Vaughan, and 6-foot-2 guard Ben Mascarenhas, from Cambridge.
Buyers can choose from 5-foot-8, 6-foot-6, and 8-foot bed lengths.
He was unable to lift his foot back on to the footrest and we came close to either breaking or straining his foot or tipping over forward due to his foot catching on the ramp.
It can be a fifteen foot dolly track in VR, and therefore one foot equals one foot.
You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you’re shopping all about.
After the US Department of Defense standardized an 8-foot by 8-foot cross section container in multiples of 10-foot lengths for military use, it was rapidly adopted for shipping purposes.
Foot ferry Foot ferries are small craft used to ferry foot passengers, and often also cyclists, over rivers.
Harpsichords occasionally include a sixteen-foot choir (one octave lower than eight-foot) or a two-foot choir (two octaves higher; quite rare).
Method The magician positions himself at an angle to his audience, a little distance away, in such a way that the audience can only see the rearward portion of one foot and most of the other foot – concealing the toe end of the "far" (upstage) foot.
One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot: 'tis the same thing in a Chancellor’s conscience.
The magician slowly stands on the heel of his "far" foot as he lifts his "near" foot and the front of the "far" foot.
An April transaction set the West Palm Beach record for the highest price per square foot in a condo at $4,100 per square foot, per the listing agent.
But that means very skinny, very short-lived dunes of 6 cubic yards per foot, compared to the 90 cubic yards per foot that the Army Corps will build.
But when Andrew and Jason Julian, brother who live in Connecticut, bought the property, they began using it to process stone and even got a town permit to put up a 25 foot by 70 foot shed for equipment storage.
Phrases with foot
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with foot
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- foot and 18×
- left foot 17×
- the foot 17×
- square foot 15×
- right foot 14×
- one foot 12×
- foot in 11×
- foot to 11×
- on foot 11×
- his foot 8×