Examples of footfall in a Sentence
She heard footfalls echoing in the hall.
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The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.
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Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Malls in the Gulf have been a bastion of normalcy amid the instability, although footfall is substantially down on usual levels.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Pandey predicts that 2026 will outperform 2025 – and that theatrical footfalls may finally return to pre-pandemic levels.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
On a typical day, the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale reverberates with animal cries and the footfalls of gawking visitors.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Malls in the Gulf have been a bastion of normalcy amid the instability, although footfall is substantially down on usual levels.
—Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Pandey predicts that 2026 will outperform 2025 – and that theatrical footfalls may finally return to pre-pandemic levels.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
On a typical day, the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center in Scottsdale reverberates with animal cries and the footfalls of gawking visitors.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Footfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footfall. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.
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footfall
noun
foot·fall
ˈfu̇t-ˌfȯl 
: the sound of a footstep
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