footlights
Example Sentences
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A wispy song called “Time” wafted over the footlights: “Time time time time/It was never mine mine mine.”
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
This approach really spoke to Sink, a former theater kid who would like to return to the footlights soon.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
With heels stomping and her hair waving, she owns the stage to such a degree that you half expect bank lenders to materialize by the footlights to sign over the deed.
From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2021
The skill of a news reader does not automatically translate to the transaction that occurs across the footlights.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2020
The box is dimly lit from the footlights down below.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
