How To Use Foot up In A Sentence

  • When they had a wedding that night, and Buck and Addy got married, we got ourselves up in the very starchiest of the professor's duds for the blow-out, and when they danced we jined in and shook a foot up there. Tom Sawyer Abroad
  • Will slid his foot up into the stirrup of the horse's saddle and prepared to pull himself up.
  • A green is an exalted piece of turf that we are privileged to set foot upon, and tromping across it with a golf bag causes extra damage, especially if you slip, or the strap breaks.
  • Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself 'Now I can do no more, whatever happens.
  • Carishia placed one foot upon the foothold and threw her other leg over Windom.
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  • The seal should cup the Achilles tendon firmly, bracing the heel while buckling the ball of your foot up and torquing your toes down.
  • Would you know me if I shoved my foot up your ass?
  • ‘My job is to make uncool things seem cool,’ he says, his foot up on a kitchen chair, like a rock star bestriding a monitor.
  • His claim being admitted and registered, his Royal Highness having placed his foot upon a cushion, the Baron of Bradwardine, kneeling upon his right knee, proceeded to undo the latchet of the brogue, or low-heeled Highland shoe, which our gallant young hero wears in compliment to his brave followers. Waverley
  • Still holding on to both the ledge and the beam, she moved one foot up and fumbled around trying to find a stepping ledge to use.
  • But the Earn slips between this seeming obstacle and the spurs of the Ochils, making such haste as it can through carse-like land to join the lordly Tay hard by Abernethy -- the ancient capital of the Southern Picts -- the centre of missionary enterprise, when darkness was thick upon the land after Ninian had died at Whithorn, on the Solway, and before Columba had set foot upon Chronicles of Strathearn
  • In frame 2 he pops an ollie, dragging his front foot up to the nose.
  • At last, towards evening, the captain comes on board with the gentleman passenger, a mighty timorsome sort of young chap he appeared for to be, and had never before set his foot upon the plank of a vessel. Poor Jack
  • Gielow had an 8-foot uphill knee-knocker in his final hole of regulation, draining the putt to stay 6-under. Undefined
  • They next set foot upon the road and found it newly paved, within the last two weeks.
  • Putting aside her hunt for lice, she walked barefoot up to the barred window.
  • Els was left with a four foot uphill putt, which he made to complete a gripping finale.
  • Then the brown man stamped his foot, and the striking of his foot upon the moss made a new noise such as Jurgen had never heard: for the noise seemed to come multitudinously from every side, at first as though each leaf in the forest were tinily cachinnating; and then this noise was swelled by the mirth of larger creatures, and echoes played with this noise, until there was a reverberation everywhere like that of thunder. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
  • At last, toward evening, the captain comes on board with the gentleman passenger, a mighty timorsome sort of young chap he appeared for to be, and had never before set his foot upon the plank of a vessel. Poor Jack
  • There was holly and crow's-foot up in the hills, and David and Anne hitched big Ben to a cart and went after it. Mistress Anne
  • It being the longest day of the year, I suppose I should have been celebrating some arcane shamanic ritual, but I just put my foot up and finished the remains of a bottle of schnapps.
  • Beginning where they had left off, drilling and climbing for a week, he had at last set foot upon that awful summit and gazed down into the depths where Mirror Lake reposed, nearly a mile beneath. DUTCH COURAGE
  • Now the LORD God was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, with his dog; and as Adam and his wife were beginning these new abominations, the LORD God did stub the toe of his foot upon their hindermost quarters. Tony Hendra: Not The Bible -- The Ultimate and Eternal Parody
  • rm, `Let me do that, man,' insisted on helping Lord Golden position his foot upon it. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Adam had untied the stallion and was trying to get his foot up into the stirrup while the horse was trying all kinds of foolishness to stop him.
  • Within little more than 60 years of that first fumbling flight along a North Carolina beach we had left the earth altogether and set foot upon another world.
  • Acting purely on instinct, she brought her foot up and slammed her stilettos onto the foot behind her.
  • Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
  • Stay down until the bowl has travelled a few metres, then bring the back foot up alongside the front foot to complete the delivery.
  • There was holly and crow's-foot up in the hills, and David and Anne hitched big Ben to a cart and went after it. Mistress Anne
  • Pushing the plate away from his foot, he padded barefoot up to Ronnie's bathroom.
  • Unfortunately it was during this time that R. began to fidget, twisting and turning in the seat, putting her foot up and down, propping it across her right knee or rubbing it restlessly.
  • rm, `Let me do that, man,' insisted on helping Lord Golden position his foot upon it. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • No longer did she have to fetch wood and water and wait hand and foot upon cantankerous menfolk. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
  • Her shoes were in the 'disgruntle' condition we so often find on farms, that, to give her a level bearing until I should call another day with a farrier to help me to pack the foot up in the old-fashioned way, I had the remaining shoes pulled off. Diseases of the Horse's Foot

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