How To Use Sure-footed In A Sentence
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Following England's World Cup debacle, the site became part of a wider charge sheet that suggested Capello had lost the sure-footedness that guided the team to qualification, amid questions about his decision to renege on an earlier promise not to pick injured players, to take those in form to South Africa and his aloof style.
Capello Index risks clash with Premier League as fiasco escalates
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Once sure-footed, their step is now a confused, uncertain stagger, like a drunk slaloming from house to house in searching for his own front door.
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I will shine the lantern along your path so you feel confident and sure-footed with each step you take.
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He is less sure-footed on purely intellectual virtue.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But as a gun for hire in Hollywood he seems less sure-footed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The horse Lady Ashburton sent him is a pretty, swift little creature, and very sure-footed, which is the first quality for a horse whose rider always goes at a gallop.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Put just a little pressure on your edges and your skis feel as sure-footed as the wheels of a train.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sure-footed animal was easily kept and many a child owed its life to the milk of the humble goat.
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The Z-Traxion z-shaped lugs promote superior weight distribution and sure-footed traction and stability.
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The footpath surface, rather the lack of it, can hamper even the most sure-footed of the city's pedestrians.
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Leaving their overnight camp by the riverbed, they turn their sure-footed local steeds toward the steep, rocky outline of the Spur.
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Difficulty rating The steep ascent and rocky ground means that you will need to be sure-footed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The novel is unfalteringly sure-footed with the many switches between the cases, time, and people's perspectives.
Book review
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•The ride was composed, neither harsh nor sloppy, with sure-footed handling that imparted confidence on the many snaky lanes Ford selected as a test route.
Test Drive review: Ford's new Fiesta has Honda Fit beat
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The Labour Party was growing increasingly sure-footed.
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Like all our horses, my mount Brown is superbly fit and sure-footed.
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Some of the other programmes are less sure-footed.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In one of the many smugly tended, overpriced noodle shops we met Bob, a guide as sure-footed as a mountain goat.
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It has sure-footed, precise handling with a very rigid platform, good steering, a willing engine and a great set of brakes.
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Does he have any tips for us oldies who may be slightly less sure-footed about the rest of our lives?
Times, Sunday Times
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My horse is small but wiry and sure-footed.
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Once sure-footed, their step is now a confused, uncertain stagger, like a drunk slaloming from house to house in searching for his own front door.
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Let your character be more self-reliant, sure-footed, sharper.
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These are sure-footed lyrics, confidently placed in their musical context, and telling their stories by phrasing just as much as the words.
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The shape was still holding me up and César walked on, unled and sure-footed.
The Phantom of the Opera
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On average, the Bush campaign has been more sure-footed, but both sides have had stumbles.
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The unpaved roads into Avante are so rough, the local police use sure-footed horses on their patrols.
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When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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These 'Coffee-mules' are wonderfully careful and sure-footed, spending their whole lives in plodding up and down the narrow hill-tracks with a great bag of coffee packed on each side.
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
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As I knotted my choice into a square of seal-foam, Valcyr came walking, with that particular sure-footed daintiness of her species, along the bank of the small runlet.
The Zero Stone
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The famous hardy and sure-footed Basotho ponies can take visitors into areas not accessible by road.
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(Though given his sure-footedness in word and line, I doubt little is left to chance.)
Clusterbook #1 | clusterflock
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The suspension is pillow-soft, and a front-wheel-drive car approaching 2 tons can't be called nimble, but the chassis felt tight and Fusion was sure-footed.
Wired Top Stories
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The famous hardy and sure-footed Basotho ponies can take visitors into areas not accessible by road.
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Castor is less sure-footed here.
The Times Literary Supplement
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On the road, the Sport's ride combined cushy comfort with sure-footedness in a way that made it a pleasure to drive in tight city traffic, on winding back roads and on long highway trips.
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