How to Use footrest in a Sentence
footrest
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Kids put their feet on the footrests and turn the steering wheel to move.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
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Where a footrest keeps hitting the wall, there’s a hole.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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Add padding and a footrest, and this would be the La-Z-Boy of camp chairs.
—Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2020
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Adjust the height of your chair so that your feet are on the floor, or on a footrest.
—cleveland, 6 Apr. 2020
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Adjust the height of your chair so that your feet rest flat on the floor or a footrest.
—Simon Hill, Wired, 2 Mar. 2022
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The feet pushed down the armrests and turned them into footrests.
—Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
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When your kid gets big the footrest can be removed, too.
—Marisa Lascala and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
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Your footrest is yours and yours alone, not an extension of the seat next to you.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
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Pop a beer, settle back and don’t forget to use the beaver head as a footrest.
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 13 Apr. 2023
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The rear right seat of the A8 comes with a footrest that will warm and massage the soles of a passenger's feet.
—Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 11 July 2017
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And the bolts that attached the footrest to the chain side extended very close to the path of the chain when the bike was in its top gear.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
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And similar to the footrest, the cupholders can be swiveled in and out from under the arms.
—Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2025
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There are pull-out footrests for the passenger and footrests for the driver.
—Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 12 June 2025
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The lounge seats in the second row have footrests, but this makes the seats bulky when folded and hard to remove.
—Marc Urbano, Car and Driver, 29 Aug. 2017
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Off to the right, curiously cropped, is a bench with a footrest.
—Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
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The footrests attach to the frame right along where the chain runs, and their bolts frequently bumped up against it.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024
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The side seat has its own table, seatbelt, and even its own footrest.
—Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
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Inflate this footrest to prop your legs in the gate area, or even on your tray table row in-flight.
—Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2025
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There are, of course, many versions of this kind of sling footrest; a quick Google yields many results.
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
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One consumer tester noted that, over time, the footrest got loose in its pegs and sometimes crashed to the ground.
—Marisa Lascala and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 8 Feb. 2023
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Cons Construction: The hull has some give under your feet, as do the footrests.
—Ben Duchesney, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2023
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The acacia wood chairs are easy to wipe clean and have footrests to keep your legs comfortable.
—Lauren Fisher, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2023
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Use the ottoman as a footrest or place a melamine serving tray on top to hold cocktails and snacks.
—Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2022
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Try and keep your thighs parallel to the floor and make sure your feet rest on the floor or some sort of footrest (a box is fine).
—Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 30 Mar. 2020
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At one point, Burton lies across a footrest in despair.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
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Lalo the Chair is sleek, easy to clean—thanks to wipeable surfaces—and has a cushy footrest for tiny feet.
—Toby Rose, Parents, 22 May 2025
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The footrest comes with an adjustable strap that can be wrapped around the seat tray in front of you for quick assembly.
—Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2024
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Make your work-from-home life a bit comfier with this footrest.
—Medea Giordano gear Team, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
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The nearly half-off chair has solid wood legs, an upholstered seat, and a metal footrest.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 3 July 2025
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Use it for extra seating or as a footrest, or pair it with a hard tray to transform the surface into an extra side table.
—Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 4 June 2025
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