How to Use footboard in a Sentence

footboard

noun
  • The footboard has the same style, but the legs are turned with finials at the bottom.
    — Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
  • There were scratches on the bed's footboard, which had moved 6 inches from the wall.
    — Marc Lester, Alaska Dispatch News, 30 June 2017
  • There’s a wheelchair mount on the back of the sidecar, and special footboards that keep my feet in place.
    — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • The footboard is milled from one piece of aluminum, like a MacBook.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
  • Your many boxes of junk can tuck behind the footboard, and your guests (and you, with time) will be none the wiser.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 3 Apr. 2026
  • This one is complete with a rustic, on-trend wooden headboard and footboard.
    — Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2024
  • Ditton held on by jamming her feet into the footboards and wrapping her arms around the cockpit rails.
    — Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The wooden bed could be made into a bench, with the headboard as the back and the footboard as side components.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The design features both a headboard and footboard with wicker accents wrapped around a sungkai wood base.
    — Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The padded fabric headboard and footboard are sturdy, and the slats are supportive.
    — Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 15 May 2025
  • Or buy the twin bed conversion kit and the front and back panels become the headboard and footboard of your child's first twin bed.
    — Rachel Rothman and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The headboard and footboard are made from durable bamboo and steel, and the bed frame can support up to 700 pounds.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
  • But the jury is out on how many parents use the front and the back of the crib for a big-kid headboard and footboard into the big-kid years.
    — Rachel Rothman and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Mo winds up seated outside the coach, on the footboard, because the driver is equally repelled by the color of his skin.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • The lower portion of the mattress (near the footboard) also offered support and a bit of give to contour around our spine.
    — Mike Richard, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The rug's engaging diamond pattern anchors the woody tones and echoes the X design in the bed's footboard.
    — Carolyn Weber, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • Two of the bed frame designs — The Canyon and The Horizon — can be purchased along with a footboard.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There’s a world of wonderful kid bed choices just a click away, from metal beds and panel beds with slats to wooden beds with footboards and no-box-spring designs.
    — Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Plywood is fine for creating large panels in the headboard or footboard, but choose solid wood for all structural components.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2019
  • Arhaus delivers a low-profile and elegant take on the traditional sleigh bed with a curved headboard and footboard that bookend the frame.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Best for Anyone who wants a super-simple wood bed frame without a headboard or footboard and that also provides ample storage space.
    — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The woman lay on her stomach, her wrists bound together behind her back, her legs held in a V by the cords that secured her ankles to either end of the footboard.
    — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Sturdy footboards are included in the package too, along with a lockable storage bag located behind the seatpost to stow valuables.
    — Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 12 Mar. 2025
  • While daybeds come in many shapes and sizes, they are typically defined by twin-size mattresses that have frames on three sides of the bed, not just a headboard and footboard like a traditional bed.
    — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 31 Jan. 2020
  • For all of his epic anti-Catholic rants, Money’s deathbed had the figure of the Virgin Mary at its head and a skeleton carved into its footboard.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • The big, rounded headboard and footboard, plus the way the bed's pushed into the corner against the wall, give me a similar feeling of structure, of being ensconced, like crawling into a shoe box.
    — Barbara King, House Beautiful, 17 July 2013
  • The monitor can detect the difference between a horizontal patient patting the footboard of the bed or a vertical patient aiming to stand.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Man, between this home birth and Henry’s PTSD interlude in Episode 4, that footboard has seen some things.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Traditionally, the headboard is a backward-curving silhouette with a matching, curling footboard, ornate finials, and a regal height.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Farmhouse looks very elegant in this piece from Amber Interiors that features both a padded head and footboard to offset the intensity of the iron frame.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2026

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