Examples of footfall in a Sentence
She heard footfalls echoing in the hall.
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Richemont also enjoyed a holiday spike, with strong footfall at Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels.
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
That far out in the field and the thunder of the spectator’s cheers would drown out the footfalls of Pal’s competitors, and so the number three would put the colt closer to the center of action and increase the odds of victory—should he be allowed to run.
—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Malls in the Gulf have been a bastion of normalcy amid the instability, although footfall is substantially down on usual levels.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 8 May 2026
That far out in the field and the thunder of the spectator’s cheers would drown out the footfalls of Pal’s competitors, and so the number three would put the colt closer to the center of action and increase the odds of victory—should he be allowed to run.
—Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Malls in the Gulf have been a bastion of normalcy amid the instability, although footfall is substantially down on usual levels.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
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“Footfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footfall. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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footfall
noun
foot·fall
ˈfu̇t-ˌfȯl 
: the sound of a footstep
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