How to use "foot" in a sentence

What all of us thought was a large whale was a three-hundred foot long underwater ship

It had soft white sand and 200-foot-tall palm trees

I looked out of the window, and there was a 25-foot giant squid! It moved close to the Nautilus and it hit the window with its long tentacles

She had to put one arm out of the window and one foot in the fireplace.

Suddenly, her head hit her foot.

The Knave did this very carefully, with one foot.

He broke his foot in football practice and couldn't play in the game

His foot got too bad to play football, and he had to leave the university

But his foot wasn't too bad for the army to get him - and here he was.

This time, however, he did not catch it and it rolled along the ground towards Valjean, who immediately put his foot on it.

He bent down to pick up his bag but, as he did so, he caught sight of the silver coin, half-buried by his foot in the earth.

When he felt that they were near him, he looked up and saw that the girl was looking steadily at him with a soft, thoughtful gaze that made him tremble from head to foot.

Then, turning to his wife, he said, 'Quickly! Put out the fire!' While she poured water on the flames, the man broke the chair with his foot and told his younger daughter to break a window

Marius was standing at the foot of the barricade, holding a flaming torch above a barrel of gunpowder.

At the foot of the smaller barricade, half-hidden by broken stones and pieces of wood, there was a hole in the road covered with an iron grille

At the end of the rue de l'Homme-Arme, which was too narrow for the carriage to enter, Javert paid the driver and accompanied Valjean to his front door on foot.

Gillenormand saw his pale, lifeless-looking grandson lying on the sofa, he shook from head to foot

He puts his foot on the accelerator, and the car starts to speed along the old road

And somewhere in the dark Mr Fletcher stops hammering his foot against the new wall

Because after hours of struggling his foot is now finally free to move.

So he continues to hammer his foot against the wall.

She arrived early and didn't have to wait in line, so in a few minutes, she was stretching her legs and then running mechanically, left-foot right-foot, on the machine.

She put her gun down, went around the foot of the bed, and stood the easel on its legs, as it belonged

Each narrow gallery consisted of a three-foot-wide aisle with a low railing on one side and a curving row of raised, plushly padded booths on the other side

He shifted from foot to foot as he talked about Magyck! Turned this way and that, gestured expansively with his quick, gem-speckled hands, virtually doing a jig.

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

The legs at the foot rose three or four inches before crashing back into the casters, that had been put under them to protect the carpet

Then a man dressed entirely in black from head to foot, his face hidden by shadows, appeared at the far side of the pit and began to shovel dirt into it

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

They drove up a steep, abandoned logging trail, a deteriorated dirt road so treacherous, so choked with snow, so icy that only a fool would have attempted to negotiate it any way but on foot."

A three-sided, fan-shaped tent had been erected on the back lawn, to one side of the sixty-foot pool, with the open side facing the house

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

A blood-freezing image rose at the back of her mind: the house torn apart by a colossal blast, shrapnel of wood and glass and metal whistling toward her, hundreds of sharp fragments piercing her from head to foot.

In the middle of the west wall - one of the two shorter walls - opposite the entrance to the room, was a six-foot-long, three-foot-high window that provided a view of another space, which was only half as large as this outer chamber

We can't get away on foot."

On each side of the gate, a nine-foot-high fence, angled outward at the top and strung with wickedly sharp coils of razor wire, stretched out of sight into the forest

Elliot rammed his foot down hard on the accelerator, and the Explorer shot forward.

He took his foot off the brake and drove forward, through sheeting snow stained red by the strange light.

The only feature in the hundred-foot-long, one-story, windowless concrete facade was a wide steel door

He wasn't scheduled for R and R, and on the spur of the moment he couldn't think of an excuse to sign out one of the Range Rovers, so he tried to escape on foot

Your surgeon cuts off your left foot when it was your gangrenous right foot he should have amputated

There is a gentle slope towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we went

He watched as the foot-soldiers rushed towards the tripod

We reached the woods at the foot of the hill and moved through these towards the road

If my foot had slipped, it would have been the end

I have a faknee-int memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within twenty metres of my head, going straight into the loose stones

The foot of Haverstock Hill was blocked by fallen horses, but my brother got onto the Belsize Road.