Sentence examples for foot used from inspiring English sources

"I had seen a giant plaster foot used as a doorstop at Chatsworth," he said, referring to the grand British country house.

An example is the statement "You are standing on my foot," used as a means of requesting or demanding that the hearer get off one's foot.

The term pedigree comes from the Latin pes ("foot") and grus ("crane") and is derived from a sign resembling a crane's foot, used to indicate lines of descent in early west European genealogies.

Yet after what Eco has taken us through on this four-year journey -- chimeras, manticores, skiapods (creatures with one huge foot used as a sunshade), dog-headed cynocephali, headless blemmyae with eyes in their chests -- we take the rocs almost for granted.

The thing on the end of your foot used to be called either "toe" or "too" in Middle English – but since one heard the word "too" too often (it having already amicably separated from its homophone "to") it made sense to make that too "toe".

The exhibition, which is doing a circuit of art museums in Japan, displays the movie camera of Mr. Tsuburaya, who also created Ultraman, as well as props including an enormous Godzilla foot, used to crush tiny buildings, and models of fanciful spaceships, submarines and ray guns used in dozens of superhero and monster movies.

Royal Mail will now mostly deliver on foot using trolleys which, it says, are more efficient than bicycles.

Figure 2 shows force ratio to a subject weight at seat and foot using no device.

Figure 2 Force ratio to a subject weight at seat and foot using no device.

It is custom molded for the individual foot using special techniques and design.

The Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot 3 is an energy efficient bionic foot using the principle of optimal power distribution.