footmark
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of footmark
Example Sentences
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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
A broken toy would have been as great an offence in that treasured spot as a stray cat; a little footmark on the verbena bed, a kicked-up stone on the gravel walk, were punishable offences.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.
A freshly impressed footmark, the scent of dog or man, almost invariably turns them back.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
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