footfall

[ US /ˈfʊtˌfɔɫ/ ]
[ UK /fˈʊtfɔːl/ ]
NOUN
  1. the sound of a step of someone walking
    he heard footsteps on the porch
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How To Use footfall In A Sentence

  • Aryan shrieks and runs out of my room, making such noise that her footfalls sound like an army trooping onto the battlefield.
  • I stormed down the hallway and the sound of my footfalls on the carpet marked my defeat.
  • Kinamori awoke to the sound of heavy footfalls, the clink of chains following each step.
  • Paradiso's team also devised a shoe that could generate a few milliwatts of electricity with each footfall.
  • He heard a footfall in the passage outside and felt his pulse quicken.
  • The thick moss carpeting the trail welcomed each footfall as she wandered through the ancient wood.
  • Down the gradual slope the scout hastened; his footfall was the only sound that broke the stillness after the answers to his call had ceased. Old Indian Days
  • We have no other way of knowing how many people come into town to shop other than these footfall figures.
  • A footfall sounded on the dead leaves behind him, and a franc-tireur touched him on the shoulder. Lorraine A romance
  • She heard the priest's familiar, flat footfall on the staircase.
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