How to Use footfall in a Sentence

footfall

noun

• She heard footfalls echoing in the hall.
• Human footfall, and that of dogs, causes environmental damage, notably the destruction of the nests of ground-nesting birds such as curlews.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 12 May 2024
• The book’s many digressions are keyed to the rhythm of footfall.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• People who now lie still and silent amid the rapid footfalls and controlled chaos of the ICU.
  — Lindy Washburn, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2020
• Hayek says that since the arrival of the MoonSwatch, Omega stores are seeing a spike in sales and footfall.
  — Tim Barber, Wired, 18 July 2022
• What was happening wasn’t the result of footfalls from a deer or pranks of some kids on the goofy guy with the long pole.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2017
• The sound of deer footfalls in crunchy leaf litter is no different.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2020
• But workers will need new skills as stores try to create more footfall.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• Grasshoppers in greens and browns leap away with every footfall.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Tourist footfall is also slow; the castle is closed to the public on Tuesdays.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 10 Jan. 2023
• In Europe, where lockdowns and the lack of tourist footfall continue, sales were down 9% year-on-year.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2021
• Even the bass of footfall was dampened, as were the mid-range frequency sounds of the treadmill’s belt and a movie blaring loudly on a TV.
  — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 21 Aug. 2020
• There’s a lot to be said for not tuning in to the past or future for stretches of time, for dwelling only in the flank, the windrow, or the footfall – whatever the moment presents.
  — Sue Wonder, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2021
• All regions of the UK suffered lower footfall except one, the East Midlands, which was up 4%.
  — Katie Linsell, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• The only sound was the faint whoosh of traffic speeding along nearby U.S. Highway 80 and of footfalls on rocky pathways and crunchy brown grass.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 22 Jan. 2020
• But what might happen to the smaller stores in those malls that depend on spillover footfall from anchor tenants?
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• On uneven surfaces where footfalls vary, however, that might not be the case.
  — Ariella Gintzler, Outside Online, 26 Mar. 2018
• In the decades that followed, her staccato footfall was as integral to Arles as the sound of the mistral, the rattling Provençal wind.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• The area is seeing footfall seven days a week, while tenants are back to paying full rents, Bickell says.
  — Evelyn Yu, Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• However, the footfall in movie halls is yet to reach a pre-pandemic figure.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• To watch them was to watch some invisible piano player timing their notes off of the rhythm of their footfall.
  — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022
• The influx of major supermarket chains in the country has seen footfall in smaller shops fall over the past decade.
  — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• The likely culprit turned out to be a carpet strip that had been added to reduce the noise of footfall from tourists visiting during Mass.
  — Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Unsheathed chestnuts and crinkly oak leaves crumble with each footfall.
  — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
• Though each footfall looked normal, the Chula Vista resident said that keeping up the pace meant pushing through pain over and over again.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
• About 5,000 locals turned out to greet the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, who met business owners grumbling that footfall had plunged after the attack.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• The manager said that lunch footfall there had fallen by 30 percent, and now one person does what used to be two people’s jobs.
  — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2020
• The road wended up toward Sylvan Pass through the Absaroka Mountains, the afternoon light shone through the pines and the firs, and all the world was silent except for my footfalls.
  — Christopher Ketcham, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2018
• Sixty-six million years ago, the ground of western North America trembled with the footfalls of a tyrant: Tyrannosaurus rex.
  — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2020
• These are the ten most popular Scottish distillery visitors centers according to footfall.
  — Mark Littler, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024