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Example sentences for "footsore"

Lexicographically close words:
footpaths; footplate; footprint; footprints; foots; footstalk; footstalks; footstep; footsteps; footstool
  1. He lunched at a chop house in Islington, and found himself back in the Royal Grand, now unmistakably footsore and London weary, about three.

  2. He was a little footsore from his previous day's pedestrianism, and he could make up his mind for no long excursions.

  3. Gaunt, footsore and hungry, he presented a forlorn figure, a mere speck on the mountain's brow.

  4. On the fourth day, footsore and weary, she dragged her tired body towards the nearest camp.

  5. But there was no sign of that which I had fondly hoped, in my parched and footsore state, might be in waiting--a couple of vehicles, ready to take us back.

  6. A footsore Confederate was hobbling as fast as he could in front of him, glancing back over his shoulder now and then uneasily.

  7. That Lee's ragged, footsore army hemmed in thus with Antietam Creek on one side and the broad, sweeping Potomac on the other would be crushed and destroyed he could not doubt for a moment.

  8. There is no infantryman to-day who is not footsore and tired.

  9. Every day the recovered from hospitals, and the footsore stragglers, and the men detached or furloughed, came home to camp.

  10. We have got half a dozen footsore men in my company alone, and you would have fifty to-morrow night if the men had not had all this marching to get them fit.

  11. The soldiers were set to work to make fresh cartridges, and then, after six days' halt to give rest to his weary and footsore men, he began to prepare to carry out Napoleon's orders to invade Portugal.

  12. He accordingly returned to France, to acquaint his sovereign with his projects and the success of the expedition that inspired them.

  13. But I soon tired, and, footsore as I was, began to find my strength fail me.

  14. Late one night, footsore and fainting from exhaustion and hunger, she presented herself at a remote farmhouse, and begged piteously for a meal and a night's rest.

  15. We were thoroughly wearied and footsore too.

  16. By then, however, she was so footsore that she could scarce drag one foot behind the other.

  17. Often a sheep dog or a puppy drops down in the same way, footsore and worn out; then the shepherds do not tarry, but leave the creatures to their fate, to die slowly of thirst and hunger.

  18. Now Suzanne rose, and taking the boy by the hand she began to lead him homeward, very slowly, since he was footsore and exhausted, and for the last half of the way could only walk resting upon her shoulder.

  19. In the early hours of the 29th I put some of our most footsore stragglers on to lorries going in the direction of Latisana.

  20. When I was relieved, I tramped back to the Piave, many miles now, and wading those of the channels that were still unbridged returned, tired and footsore but with a song in my heart, to my Battery.

  21. There were some vacant places in various cars and lorries at this point and some footsore men were put in.

  22. He was now comfortably installed at the Villa Passi, and the day some of our footsore men limped into Treviso, he was lunching with his Staff, all bright and polished and sleek, in the Hotel Stella d'Oro.

  23. He was footsore and heavy of heart, for his long pilgrimage had brought him only weariness and humiliation, and as no drop of rain had fallen he knew that his garden must have perished.

  24. So, footsore and bleeding, he reached a little stony plain as the sun dropped to the sea; and in the red light he saw a hollow rock, and the Saint sitting in the hollow.

  25. I've not walked very far, and yet am so footsore I don't know how to stand.

  26. I've tramped all over the place after your affairs, I've got quite footsore bothering about matters.

  27. The campaign of the southwest was ended, and the footsore warriors had an opportunity to gain the rest they so greatly needed.

  28. The noble-hearted youths had done all they could to help along their comrades, and for nearly half the way they had loaned their horses to footsore infantrymen who were unable to keep up with the column.

  29. They cheerfully gave up their places in the wagons to some of the footsore soldiers, and trudged along behind the vehicles as merry as larks.

  30. Why all this ceaseless sorrow, this footsore wandering, this rootless life, this eternal curse?

  31. But so footsore was I, I came there only at midnight, and could not search.

  32. Old and young wended their way to the vessels, weary and footsore and sad at heart.

  33. Hundreds of those who were placed under control escaped and wandered, footsore and half clad, from town to town in the hope of meeting their relatives or of finding means to return to their former homes.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footsore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.