How to Use footstep in a Sentence

footstep

noun
  • It's five footsteps from the bedroom to the bathroom.
  • She slowly took one footstep toward the frightened animal.
  • Your own footsteps in the dust.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Then there was a furtive crunch, crunch, crunch of footsteps.
    — Bob Cary, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Corvette’s dream is to follow in her footsteps.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Their footsteps are loud against the aging wood.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • You're supposed to make your own footsteps.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Kind of followed in his footsteps.
    — Christian Clark, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But Shah didn’t want to follow in their footsteps.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Guy Fieri hopes that his son will one day follow in his footsteps.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The nurse turned at the sound of footsteps outside the curtain around my bed.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Once the sensors have picked up a footstep, the software takes over.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Hailee, who assists a pop-icon singer and aims to follow in her footsteps.
    — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2018
  • These mines, which are around the size of a fist, can be triggered by a footstep on or near them.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And the guys around him seem to raise their level of play and follow in his footsteps.
    — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • This retro trend follows in the footsteps of summer's silk scarf trend.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The footsteps of the children are heavy, running wild.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There’d been no footsteps, no noise at all, and now there was no strange man with a sword, either.
    — Wesley Snipes, The Root, 27 May 2018
  • At his lab there was a split-belt treadmill that could measure the force of each footstep.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Their three sons then followed in his footsteps and went to CU.
    — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Or will following in the footsteps of his traitor father come back to bite him?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025
  • They can be triggered by pressure, such as a footstep on or nearby the unit.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Each footstep was recorded in a track of mud, to be analyzed.
    — Christina Larson, ajc, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Each footstep was recorded in a track of mud, to be analyzed.
    — Christina Larson, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Maybe Evans will follow in Ware’s footsteps in more ways than one.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The main goal is to not follow exactly in my peers' footsteps.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Arch is hoping to follow in all of their footsteps, but has a long season ahead.
    — Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But this was not an attempt to follow in his father’s footsteps.
    — Wesley Lowery, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • Then came footsteps, followed by a gunshot.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The building was mostly dark and quiet enough to hear footsteps echo.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025

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