footstool
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If you’re in an exit row, you might also have enough space to place a small inflatable footstool like the one from Sunany available on Amazon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Dodge that footstool on your way to this week’s Slate News Quiz.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2023
Lanoba’s first sale was a footstool to a psychologist in Manhattan, which Balderskilde delivered to the buyer’s office.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Prince William, pictured in shorts and a khaki polo shirt, is sitting on a gold footstool alongside his wife in a long-sleeved dark green summer dress.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2021
So I helped him to the chair, got his feet on the footstool, and fixed the blanket.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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But before the aliens arrive, in the form of cute little furry “pouffes” that resemble comfy footstools, we get to know Su and Jack.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
People were listening: in the three months after the video aired, the company sold 195,000 footstools, and grossed more than $7m.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2018
A few Jasper Morrison mushroomlike footstools are scattered nearby; that they are made of cork is merely coincidental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2016
Men sat in groups outside on footstools, and everyone walked down the middle of the street, where the weight of a thousand eyes produces a strange feeling of both protection and surveillance.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2016
They were always getting scratched by cats, or cutting themselves shaving, or stumbling over footstools in the dark—reasonable explanations, certainly, but for sedentary people they had an odd excess of bruises and small wounds.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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