Sentence examples for footsteps outside from inspiring English sources

Next, the whispering footsteps outside as the soldiers crept towards me.

"Night after night, she dreamed of this man — oh, how she wanted this man!" My father was inside himself, not looking at me. "And then one night she heard the sound of footsteps outside".

Jordan was about to make up a long, elaborate, and convincing excuse, but there were footsteps outside on the porch, and both of them turned in time to see the door thrown open.

"I heard footsteps outside my door, and I sweated freely," he recalled.

In the spring of 1918, Luise was asleep one night in the upstairs bedroom of her farmhouse when she woke to the sound of footsteps outside.

Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).

We always hear more than we see: footsteps upstairs or outside; sirens and crashes in the night; whispering voices and humming machines.

For the first time all night, the room was silent enough to hear footsteps in the outside hallway.

The shooting went on all night and I listened to the machine-gun fire and explosions tucked under my covers, when I heard footsteps just outside my window.

Lying in bed at night, Major Fenton grows anxious when he hears footsteps crunch the gravel outside, fearing another death.

I remember I once wrote a sixty-four-bar piece about a memory of when I was a little boy in bed and heard a man whistling on the street outside, his footsteps echoing away.