footmark
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of footmark
Example Sentences
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The creases and bowlers’ footmarks have been repaired.
From BBC
Thirsting for potable water, Felix tramps through mud that leaves glowing, phosphorescent footmarks.
From Washington Post
The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.
From The New Yorker
The increasingly threatening Lyon was regularly beating the bat, bowling into the footmarks.
From The Guardian
It prompts the ground staff to come out to hammer the pitch where the footmarks are for the bowler - not sure if the two events are linked, but we lose a couple of minutes.
From The Guardian
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