footrest
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You may need to adjust the height of your chair and if, after adjusting, your feet no longer touch the floor, add a footrest or small stool.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Sure, you can recline the seat or pop up a footrest, but no adjustments you can make will compare to sleeping in a real horizontal bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
A year later, I still have my pile of library books, tucked in a box that I use as a footrest at my desk.
From The Verge ● Mar. 11, 2021
In the movie’s most ferocious scene, the chair rises up on its footrest and launches an attack, eyes aglow.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
Finn jabbed the shovel into the earth, stamped on the footrest, tossed the dirt over his shoulder, jabbed, stamped, tossed, jabbed, stamped, tossed.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Perched in a captain’s chair, a padded-leather lounger with two footrests, he spins the Teresa around and drives into the larger vessel’s wake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Grid View There are no pedals, but BMW says there will be footrests — though in the photos, the only footrest that anyone is using is a skateboard clipped to the underside of the bike.
From The Verge ● Sep. 3, 2021
Moira: Yes, the chairs are super-cushy, and the footrests go up nice and high, so you’re basically watching the movie while comfortably sprawled.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
Before turning a wheelchair over to airport personnel, take off any removable parts such as the seat cushion, removable wheels and footrests.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2019
“I’ll just go back,” I say as she raises my footrests.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
