How to Use footboard in a Sentence

footboard

noun
  • Two of the bed frame designs — The Canyon and The Horizon — can be purchased along with a footboard.
    Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There were scratches on the bed's footboard, which had moved 6 inches from the wall.
    Marc Lester, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 June 2017
  • The footboard is milled from one piece of aluminum, like a MacBook.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • There’s a wheelchair mount on the back of the sidecar, and special footboards that keep my feet in place.
    A.j. Baime, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • The wooden bed could be made into a bench, with the headboard as the back and the footboard as side components.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Or buy the twin bed conversion kit and the front and back panels become the headboard and footboard of your child's first twin bed.
    Rachel Rothman and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Ditton held on by jamming her feet into the footboards and wrapping her arms around the cockpit rails.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The rug's engaging diamond pattern anchors the woody tones and echoes the X design in the bed's footboard.
    Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • For all of his epic anti-Catholic rants, Money’s deathbed had the figure of the Virgin Mary at its head and a skeleton carved into its footboard.
    Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • The head tube bolts to the folding mechanism (7): A quick release (8) frees a pin to slide over a groove, so the front tube can fold and lock into place parallel to the footboard (9) for stowage on the go.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • The woman lay on her stomach, her wrists bound together behind her back, her legs held in a V by the cords that secured her ankles to either end of the footboard.
    Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • In the master bedroom is a matching headboard, footboard, gentleman’s chest and nightstand set made of birdseye maple in the 1930s that the Greenes left behind.
    oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The big, rounded headboard and footboard, plus the way the bed's pushed into the corner against the wall, give me a similar feeling of structure, of being ensconced, like crawling into a shoe box.
    Barbara King, House Beautiful, 17 July 2013
  • As the motor uses energy, the level of charge in the battery is indicated by four LEDs embedded in the footboard.
    Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • While daybeds come in many shapes and sizes, they are typically defined by twin-size mattresses that have frames on three sides of the bed, not just a headboard and footboard like a traditional bed.
    Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Plywood is fine for creating large panels in the headboard or footboard, but choose solid wood for all structural components.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2019
  • No Available in three sizes, with and without a footboard, the Webster bed is Serena & Lily's fresh take on bobbin furniture, which was popular throughout much of the 17th century.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The monitor can detect the difference between a horizontal patient patting the footboard of the bed or a vertical patient aiming to stand.
    Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • After purchasing his own freedom in 1826, Boyd invented a corded bed created with wooden rails connected to the headboard and footboard.
    Shontavia Johnson, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2017
  • That’s because beds are relatively simple structures, consisting of just five basic components: a headboard, footboard, two horizontal rails, and wooden slats that span the rails and support the box spring.
    Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Are there angry AIs that only understand mathematical patterns keyed into footboards at a frantic rate?
    Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018

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