lead-footed
Example Sentences
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Shakespeare’s play and its title character can be viewed from many perspectives, and one positive aspect of Tata’s production is that it doesn’t turn the play into a lead-footed contemporary political allegory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Gleiberman concluded the film is "lighter, more frolicsome, less lead-footed than such clomping live-action Disney remakes as Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025
When, a minute into the track, a heavy bass line and overall bottom-end rumble arrive, the track shoots into gear like a lead-footed street racer.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2018
In the second, Tommy Joseph — the Phillies’ lead-footed first baseman — tried stretching a single to left field into a double.
From Washington Post • May 6, 2017
I was standing there, lead-footed with horror, when two men pushed through the door carrying a sheet-wrapped bundle between them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
