Footwell is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Footwell meaning
The space for the feet in front of a seat in a vehicle
Using Footwell
- The main meaning on this page is: The space for the feet in front of a seat in a vehicle
- In the example corpus, footwell often appears in combinations such as: the footwell, footwell of, rear footwell.
Context around Footwell
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Footwell
- In this selection, "footwell" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rear, passenger and behind stand out and add context to how "footwell" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the footwell and driver s footwell from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "footwell" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with footwell
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mr Atkinson said Hoare had put Alfie in the footwell of the backseat, and failed to stop Waterson from hurting her son. (22 words)
A spent shotgun cartridge located in the rear footwell was 'no doubt the cartridge that was fired' from the car, Mr Tatlow alleged. (23 words)
The maximum space in the footwell was 30cm, and, at the touch of a button, that could be reduced to just 9.5cm. (23 words)
Basically, we're putting cameras in the footwell, so we can watch what's going on and figure out if women are using the pedals differently in a way that puts them at higher risk,” Reed explains. (37 words)
Waterson was returning home after shopping in South London in 2018 when he reversed his electronic car seat onto Alfie who was sitting at his mother's feet in the footwell behind. (32 words)
Three large blocks of cocaine, weighing a kilogram each, were found in a plastic bag that they had put in the front passenger footwell of the Volkswagen T-Roc they were driving. (32 words)
Example sentences (10)
A spent shotgun cartridge located in the rear footwell was 'no doubt the cartridge that was fired' from the car, Mr Tatlow alleged.
Waterson was returning home after shopping in South London in 2018 when he reversed his electronic car seat onto Alfie who was sitting at his mother's feet in the footwell behind.
You might also note that they news giant blurred what is almost certainly the rest of the deer, kind of pooled up in the footwell of some guy’s Jeep Compass.
Basically, we're putting cameras in the footwell, so we can watch what's going on and figure out if women are using the pedals differently in a way that puts them at higher risk,” Reed explains.
It doesn’t recline but magically converts into a bed via a footrest that flips up to align with the seat to fill the gap between the seat and the footwell.
Three large blocks of cocaine, weighing a kilogram each, were found in a plastic bag that they had put in the front passenger footwell of the Volkswagen T-Roc they were driving.
The driver of an all-wheel-drive IS300 or IS350 must contend with a hump in the driver’s footwell from the all-wheel drive system.
Mr Atkinson said Hoare had put Alfie in the footwell of the backseat, and failed to stop Waterson from hurting her son.
The boy had been in the rear footwell of Waterson's Audi convertible, at the feet of his mother Adrian Hoare, 23, the Old Bailey has heard.
The maximum space in the footwell was 30cm, and, at the touch of a button, that could be reduced to just 9.5cm.
Common combinations with footwell
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the footwell 6×
- footwell of 4×
- rear footwell 2×
- footwell was 2×