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Example sentences for "foot and"

  • The carriages were ranged several rows deep, and surrounded by young beaux on foot and horseback; any one might have been excused for imagining himself in an European city.

  • The leaves of the former are about three feet long, a foot and a-half broad, and deeply serrated; while those of the latter are not much larger than the leaves of our own apple-trees.

  • Each procession consists frequently of as many as a dozen or more elephants, and fifty or sixty soldiers on foot and mounted, and as many servants, etc.

  • These craft rose hardly a foot and a half out of the water, and their greatest breadth did not average quite a foot.

  • Yes; but the king is a foot and a half shorter than you are.

  • A capital idea, Porthos; but Mouston is a foot and a half shorter than you.

  • The English fell back towards the standard, which was upon a rising ground, and the Normans followed them across the valley, attacking them on foot and horseback.

  • This fierce-looking weapon is not, in form, unlike the waving sword one sees in the pictures of the angel Michael, though it is not above a foot and a-half in length.

  • He holds in his hand an oar or paddle, which consists of a pole ten or twelve feet long, carrying at its extremity a circular disc of wood about a foot or a foot and a-half in diameter.

  • They are cultivated in the following manner; the earth is raised in little hills or high furrows about a foot and a half broad, that by draining the moisture, the roots may have a better relish.

  • They do the same again, when it is about a foot and a half high.

  • As nearly as could be told at the time the picture was taken the trees were all killed to the snowline which was from a foot and a half to two feet above ground.

  • Parma was furious at the cowardice with which five companies of foot and one of horse -- all picked troops -- had fled before the attack of seventy Hollanders.

  • The myrmidons of Inspector Bucket, foot and horse, supplement those natatory representatives.

  • Vandyck, on foot and on horseback, both widely known by engravings, are the gems of this department, as a Vandyck will always be of any group of portraits.

  • The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again.

  • A wooden peg, a foot and a half high, with two slight crooks or curves in one side of it and one in the other, projects above the starboard gunwale.

  • Parma was furious at the cowardice with which five companies of foot and one of horse--all picked troops--had fled before the attack of seventy Hollanders.

  • He spoke; but she, furious and stung with fiery indignation, hands her horse to an attendant, and takes her stand in equal arms on foot and undismayed, with naked sword and shield unemblazoned.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foot and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    addressed them; after years; dense tufts; field guns; foot and; foot apart; foot deep; foot high; foot level; foot pounds; foot soldiers; foot square; foot telescope; foot trefoil; foot wide; football game; footed mouse; mission schools; quite independently; somewhat irregular; systematic study; this view; three lights; usually appointed prime minister; virulent poison; will consider