Sentence examples for the third foot from inspiring English sources

In a line of iambic pentameter Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name… Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name… the or of the third foot is only slightly stronger than the preceding syllable -ton's, but this very slight difference makes the line recognizable as iambic metre.

Controllers will see what they can do to lower the third foot to the surface.

In March 1906, after six years in the cadet corps in Plön and Groß-Lichterfelde, he was commissioned into the Third Foot Guards Regiment (Garde zu Fuß) as an ensign.

The first foot was found last August.

It was the fifth foot found in provincial waters since last August, but the first left one.

A trochaic substitution is quite normal in the first foot of an iambic pentameter line; a trochaic substitution in the second foot, however, creates a marked disturbance in the rhythm.

The master bedroom, on the second foot, features a bay window and a balcony overlooking a tree-lined street.

He just whacked off the first foot and a half and handed it to her as a souvenir".

"But there are certain parameters, and one of them would be who performs best in the Worlds has probably got the first foot in the door".

Commissioned into the First Foot Guards at the age of ten, he spent his youth when not with whores surrounded by members of the Prussian officer class.

I don't know who started it, where the first hip swayed or the first foot tapped, but out of nowhere, people were dancing.