Sentence examples for real footing from inspiring English sources

They have no real footing in maths academia and are totally pointless (two-way tables do the job just as well) yet they have appeared on the new programme of study from the Department for Education out of nowhere.

With the world's financial markets still struggling to find any real footing, other large, looming issues have taken a backseat.

It wasn't until I finally hit the wall with an exceptionally bad experience that I finally found my real footing as a mother.

"And they were six inches longer than your real feet.

"It's better looking than my real foot," Ms. Palmiero-Winters said.

("Artificial legs but real feet," Mr. Oldman said. "He's an anomaly! I'll just see where it goes").

The Anthropoidea, by contrast, did their best to look like their creators sporting arms with proper hands, legs with real feet, and faces (think C-3PO).

As Wallinger walks along, his sandals become tangled up with the shadow until it seems as if the shadow takes over, has more authority in its powerful stride than the real feet, apparently following after rather than generating the shadow.

Not far from Guildhall, in the forensic museum at Bart's hospital, there are the real feet of just such a girl as the one in the painting, preserved in a specimen jar: she fell asleep in a doorway, and woke up so badly frostbitten that both her feet had to be amputated.

A prosthetic foot that mimics the muscle actions of real feet has been short-listed for the UK's top engineering prize.

If you're a big VFF fan, you may have been thinking about moving toward a more closed shoe for trail running but didn't want to sacrifice the delicious toe splay offered by "real" foot gloves.