footstool
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footstools
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If you’re in an exit row, you might also have enough space to place a small inflatable footstool like the one from Sunany available on Amazon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
Lanoba’s first sale was a footstool to a psychologist in Manhattan, which Balderskilde delivered to the buyer’s office.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
And although a delivery team called saying they had his footstool, they knew nothing about the missing part of the corner suite.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
A plain footstool jumps to life in trompe-l’oeil black and white — both a tangible artifact and an artsy abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2021
The guests were commanded to sit quiet, and were set in chairs, each with a footstool to his tired feet.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The sixth floor, devoted to shipping, features footstools made from moving blankets.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
But before the aliens arrive, in the form of cute little furry “pouffes” that resemble comfy footstools, we get to know Su and Jack.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2020
Sheldrake visits a factory that turns fungal networks into furniture — footstools instead of toadstools.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2020
Everybody stands on footstools around the maple-wood prep table to gain the leverage needed to make dough in big stainless-steel bowls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2018
They were always getting scratched by cats, or cutting themselves shaving, or stumbling over footstools in the dark—reasonable explanations, certainly, but for sedentary people they had an odd excess of bruises and small wounds.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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