How do you use the word "foot" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "foot": The church is at the foot of the hill. You see a white building at the foot of the hill.

Foot

/fʊt/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

nounSpecifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.

Sentence Examples

The church is at the foot of the hill.

You see a white building at the foot of the hill.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pick hoof

Antonyms:

head

CEFR Practice Quiz

She had to quickly move her ____ to avoid stepping on the sharp broken glass.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She spent the entire morning on her ____, preparing a massive feast for the holiday dinner.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous. Cognates *Scots fit (“foot”) *Yola voote (“foot”) *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”) *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”) *West Frisian foet (“foot”) *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”) *Dutch voet (“foot”) *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”) *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”) *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”) *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”) *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”) *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”) *Vilamovian füs (“foot”) *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”) *Danish fod (“foot”) *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”) *Jamtish fót (“foot”) *Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”) *Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And when I ſawe him, I fell at his feete as dead : and hee laid his right hand vpon me, ſaying vnto mee, Feare not, *I am the firſt,and the laſt." — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:17:

"No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap." — 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

"No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention." — 2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:

"His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot." — 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

"He removes a gold lighter from his pocket, flips it open, and waves the flame over the foot, taking short, sucking pulls off the head till it’s lit." — 2022, Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, 4th Estate (2023), page 128:

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