How To Use Flat-footed In A Sentence
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Perhaps, and there's no denying that the interweaving of voices and beatbox rhythms can be flat-footed at times.
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A grandmother trots past flat-footed, the baby jogging on her back stealing the look of me.
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a slow flat-footed walk
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Murray is fine as long as his character isn't waxing poetic, and Laura Teasdale provides some very welcome comic relief as the flat-footed maid Cathleen.
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As the village suffers its first losses at the frontline, conscientious objector George (Thomas), a teacher, is ostracised for refusing to dish out corporal punishment at the local school, flat-footed Cecil (Bird) bemoans a lack of beer, and caddish, cowardly Bert (Sweet) sets his cap at a grieving widow.
Chickens: What The Inbetweeners did next
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I spent a lot of time watching my feet, making sure to throw off of my left foot rather than resorting to my old flat-footed infielder peg.
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own.
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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As a child I was supremely flat-footed in the outdoors, which, combined with my fear of falling over, made me a third wheel on outings of all kinds.
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If a novel was riddled with the flat-footed cliches that plague so many science books, the critics would skewer it.
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a flat-footed refusal
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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Most feature anomalously crude draftsmanship, scabby surfaces and flat-footed figuration.
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He diagnosed her as flat-footed and knock-kneed.
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Giggs left Taylor flat-footed with a peach of a free kick after 61 minutes.
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The President's announcement seemed to catch Democrats flat-footed.
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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And the uninspired direction from Shawn Levy feels particularly flat-footed.
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Campaign leaders were caught flat-footed when the opinion polls suddenly started to swing the other way.
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The plashy fens of the pathogen are a fertile habitat for flat-footed doom-mongers.
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Parents with flat-footed children sometimes say their children are clumsier than other kids.
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Intuit's causes include, coincidently as an afterthought, certainly, Byron and Comstock, but Keam, was left flat-footed and empty-handed.
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish, and Bipartisan to Boot
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It feels as if all the ligaments in my body are going to snap at any moment and my feet are so flat-footed it's like walking on glass.
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Smitty caught it flat-footed; he had not even tried to duck.
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And the closure has made the Government look flat-footed.
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The Livingston defence were caught flat-footed, allowing the Croatian to home in on goal before slotting the ball past the advancing McKenzie.
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Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake.
Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
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I have stood, flat-footed between the serving stations, studying the cascades of shrimp on ice, and the hunks of beef bleeding into the chopping-board gutters and the intense Hispanic boys at the omelette hobs begging for orders, and known that nothing good could come from this.
Buffets are the place where ingredients go to die
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There is no trace left in the whole of London of the old, flat-footed waiters whose eyes were all over the place and who did their job so brilliantly that a pleasant symbiosis developed between them and the guests.
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My first impulse is to get off my toes and stand flat-footed, but as soon as I try that, I begin to fall, windmilling my arms as fast as I can to steady myself, but the motion is hindered by my wings, which crush under my weight on impact.
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In contrast, the A. afarensis bone resembled that of the flat-footed apes, making it improbable that its foot had an arch like our own.
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Unfortunately, the tone mandated by the flat-footed New Yorker style drains his story of any emotional connection to events unfolding in the narrative.
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The very discovery of the website on which the futures exchange was prototyped seemed to have caught its inventors flat-footed and their masters by surprise.
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the new product caught their competitors flat-footed
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Time and again opponents are caught flat-footed by the grubber kick.
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As with all the best American comedies, the sharpness of the script made the average British sitcom seem embarrassingly flat-footed.
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If a novel was riddled with the flat-footed cliches that plague so many science books, the critics would skewer it.
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“It’s not about profit and loss,” explains Montgomery, tutorially, implying that profit and loss is flat-footed and literal.
Serious Money
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His speed and skill makes other players look flat-footed.
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Unfortunately when the time came for him to join the army, he was rejected due to the fact that he was flat-footed.
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South American powerhouse Argentina pulverized flat-footed defenders to defeat Japan tonight for their sixth straight win over the Asian Cup holders.
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The defence looked flat-footed as Sutton scored easily.
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But while the defender stood flat-footed, the striker followed the flight of the ball, attempted to take it under control and, in fluffing his first touch, shinned it into the net.
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Translated into armor, the poulaine fad became downright dangerous: Austrian knights at the battle of Sempach in 1386 were riveted to the spot by their elongated iron shoes and were forced to strike off the points with their swords or be caught flat-footed, so to speak.
Futures Imperfect
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The essays gathered here are either flat-footed or tediously abstract too many references to Roland Barthes.
Fashion's Eternal Flame
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And the closure has made the Government look flat-footed.
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