footrest

Example Sentences

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You may need to adjust the height of your chair and if, after adjusting, your feet no longer touch the floor, add a footrest or small stool.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Sure, you can recline the seat or pop up a footrest, but no adjustments you can make will compare to sleeping in a real horizontal bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Grid View There are no pedals, but BMW says there will be footrests — though in the photos, the only footrest that anyone is using is a skateboard clipped to the underside of the bike.

From The Verge • Sep. 3, 2021

In the movie’s most ferocious scene, the chair rises up on its footrest and launches an attack, eyes aglow.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2019

I strapped the life jacket that had been attached to the footrest oar to the base of the mast.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel