Below you will find example sentences with "left foot". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Left Foot in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: foot
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 17
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "left foot" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as behind your left foot and then, fringy hard left foot soldiers, weight, opponent and leader stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with left tackle, left wing, seconds left and square foot, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with left foot
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Right foot, left foot, he is a nightmare for defenders. (10 words)
He plays off his left foot and right foot, and scores goals. (12 words)
Note: Simply using your left foot to brake is NOT repeat Not the Left Foot Braking Method. (17 words)
In the 1990 World Cup second round tie against Brazil, he did use his right foot to set up the winning goal for Claudio Caniggia due to two Brazilian markers forcing him into a position that made use of his left foot less practical. (44 words)
As an example, a leader may lead a follow back onto their right foot through the leader's own weight transfer forwards onto their left foot; yet at the same time turn the follower's torso to the left from above the hips. (43 words)
Vaulters will usually count their steps backwards from their starting point to the box only counting the steps taken on the left foot (vice versa for left-handers) except for the second step from the box, which is taken by the right foot. (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
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.
You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you’re shopping all about.
The left leg of the athlete is straddling the left thigh of the opponent—the left knee of the opponent is not on the floor—and is trapping the left foot of the opponent by stepping on it.
Note: Simply using your left foot to brake is NOT repeat Not the Left Foot Braking Method.
As an example, a leader may lead a follow back onto their right foot through the leader's own weight transfer forwards onto their left foot; yet at the same time turn the follower's torso to the left from above the hips.
Sway Left stretches away from the moving right foot, while Sway Right stretches away from the moving left foot.
Vaulters will usually count their steps backwards from their starting point to the box only counting the steps taken on the left foot (vice versa for left-handers) except for the second step from the box, which is taken by the right foot.
There’s also a tension on the Left between its wealthy center-left donors and its fringy hard-left foot soldiers.
He plays off his left foot and right foot, and scores goals.
While his left foot healed, the severe burns led his right foot to develop a 'bullet-hole-shaped ulcer', which 'grew wider and deeper, until it reached the bone'.
Come into an elbow plank position and roll to your right side, allowing your feet to roll too, so you're balancing on the outside of your right foot, stacking your left foot on your right.
He scored that outrageous goal, with the ball going from knee to left foot, then right foot.
I jammed the brake pedal with my left foot, while at the same time trying to lift the throttle pedal with my right foot.
Right foot, left foot, he is a nightmare for defenders.
As the opponent lunges in, the boxer should throw the hook and pivot on his left foot and swing his right foot 180 degrees around.
For example, if the lead begins on their left foot, the follow will begin on their right foot.
In the 1990 World Cup second round tie against Brazil, he did use his right foot to set up the winning goal for Claudio Caniggia due to two Brazilian markers forcing him into a position that made use of his left foot less practical.
On counts 5 and 6, the leader touches their right foot in front of themselves while the follower touches their left foot back.
The basic step is for the leader to touch their left foot behind them, but not to shift their weight, on counts 1 and 2, while the follower mirrors the motion by touching their right foot in front of them without shifting weight.
The sources generally describe movement patterns starting on the left foot, then repeating it starting with the right foot.