footrest

Example Sentences

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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

West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III used the shelf under his desk as a footrest.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2020

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

I turned the last oar into a footrest, lashing it on one side of the raft, about two feet from the lifebuoy, and tying the remaining life jacket to it.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel