footmark

Example Sentences

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They suspect that a footmark where Jonathan said his father fell did not match up with someone slipping and falling.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

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

He is frightened by a parrot calling him by name, and by the strangely picturesque incident of the footmark on the sand; but, on the whole, he takes his imprisonment with preternatural stolidity.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

But the grave is not deep, it is the gleaming footmark of an angel who seeks us.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul