Sentence examples for dragging footsteps from inspiring English sources

Nunn follows Beckett's tongue-in-cheek catalogue of sound effects pretty much to the letter: twittering birds, mooing cows, dragging footsteps, a trundling cart, a car horn, steam trains.

"His footsteps were dragging.

Beatrice imagines that she is an astronaut dragging a two-hundred-pound spacesuit and that is why her footsteps seem not to be carrying her forward.

Images and scenes are swift and fierce:  bandaged men carried into mosques, boys cursing and hurling stones, barbed wire, barrels, tanks, palm trees aflame, bullet wisps, chanted slogans, the dead dragged to sidewalks and countless footsteps echoing down boulevards and alleys.

Suchet follows in the footsteps of Geoffrey Rush, who dragged up for a 2011 production by the Melbourne Theatre Company, and Brian Bedford who played the part on Broadway that year.

When she sees her younger sister follow in her footsteps and shake down another girl for money, she intervenes and drags her sister home, holding her and pleading with her to not lose herself with her friends.

These can be visual (lights or dark shadows moving around the room, monstrous figures), auditory (voices, footsteps, mechanical sounds), tactile (feeling that one is being touched or dragged off the bed or that the bedclothes are being pulled off), and/or proprioceptive (body or limbs vibrating, rapid acceleration of the whole body, out-of-body experiences).

Negotiations dragged.

Serial adventurer Alastair Humphreys, 38, who once dragged a homemade steel cart (filled with 300kg of supplies) for 1,000 miles through the so-called Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, went to public school but said there was nothing to stop anyone following in his footsteps.

Footsteps, softened by the lazy drag of slippers, approached.

Following in the footsteps of RuPaul and other drag queen-turned-authors, Robbie has written a book, entitled I'll Tell You For Free, which is set for release this year.