FOOTPATH in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for FOOTPATH, such as:

1. A footpath led across to the lonely cottage.
2. Owners who allow their dogs to foul the footpath will be fined.
3. Stephen walked on beside his friend, staring gloomily at the footpath.
4. A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor.
5. They turned down Baggot Street and he followed them at once, taking the other footpath.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOOTPATH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
footpath
 n.  a trodden path
Classic Sentence:
1  Before reaching the town the hunter branched away into a rugged and narrow footpath which led to the mountains.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  He took the same route; and arriving at a footpath across the fields: which he knew, after some distance, led out again into the road; struck into it, and walked quickly on.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Along this same footpath, Oliver well-remembered he had trotted beside Mr. Bumble, when he first carried him to the workhouse from the farm.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  It must be carried to the market-town: which is not more than four miles off, by the footpath across the field: and thence dispatched, by an express on horseback, straight to Chertsey.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  A footpath led across to the lonely cottage.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
6  There were so many flagstones on the footpath of that street and so many streets in that city and so many cities in the world.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  Stephen walked on beside his friend, staring gloomily at the footpath.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
9  They turned down Baggot Street and he followed them at once, taking the other footpath.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
10  The carman was stamping up and down the footpath, and swinging his arms to warm himself.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
11  In some of the Arsacides they are used for beams whereon to lay footpath bridges over small streams.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
12  Dark thick foliage hems it in on either hand, and into it a bare footpath leads by a narrow gorge and difficult entrance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
13  The roadway was blocked with the immense stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of pedestrians.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  In Westmoreland Street the footpaths were crowded with young men and women returning from business and ragged urchins ran here and there yelling out the names of the evening editions.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
Example Sentence:
1  A unique design in a footpath that people, especially tourists, love to follow as they wander the downtown core of Saint John, New Brunswick.
2  Owners who allow their dogs to foul the footpath will be fined.