footlights
Example Sentences
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“Can an actor cross the footlights? I thought, I bet he can.”
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 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
There were also no emergency lights or footlights.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2020
The footlights of the West End might remain a distant, unfulfilled dream forevermore.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing footlights
Theater - Introductory
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Theater - Middle School
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Theater - High School
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