[
US
/ˈfʊtˌfɔɫ/
]
[ UK /fˈʊtfɔːl/ ]
[ UK /fˈʊtfɔːl/ ]
NOUN
-
the sound of a step of someone walking
he heard footsteps on the porch
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.