footrest

Example Sentences

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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

A year later, I still have my pile of library books, tucked in a box that I use as a footrest at my desk.

From The Verge • Mar. 11, 2021

West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III used the shelf under his desk as a footrest.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2020

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

From my perch on the cushioned chair I see the wooden footrest with its floral needlepoint cover in front of her rocker, the small shelf of books— prayer books and poetry, mainly—by the stairs.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline