footmark

Example Sentences

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Dar's late intervention on Prior's behalf also cost them heavily, the umpire having made his decision in the affirmative then noting Johnson's footmark on the crease and asking for a check.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2010

These prints, together with another footmark found on the same cardboard cover—the bold and bloody impression of a Cat’s Paw half sole— were the only “serious clues” the investigators could claim.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

All the mysterious people who used the island as a resting-place seemed purposely to avoid the neighborhood of the hut; they went and came without leaving a footmark on the turf.

From Timar's Two Worlds by Jókai, Mór

Not a footmark of any sort was to be seen, not a suggestion that any one had visited the place.

From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James

“Ah! look, Saxe!” cried Dale: “some one’s footmark in the pine ash!”

From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Burton, Frederic William