footrest
Americannoun
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footrests
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Sure, you can recline the seat or pop up a footrest, but no adjustments you can make will compare to sleeping in a real horizontal bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
The seat, footrest, and handle are all very compact.
From The Verge ● Jul. 7, 2022
In the movie’s most ferocious scene, the chair rises up on its footrest and launches an attack, eyes aglow.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2019
And I kept being confused by weird air effects down around my footrest; it seemed like I had dropped something that was twisting around my ankles.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2019
I put my shoulder to the footrest of the chair and heave, grunting as I push the chair toward the door.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Two years into the work-from-home revolution, there’s more competition than ever on everything from desks to webcams to monitors to footrests, and that gives DeskTubers a new world of gadgets to test.
From The Verge ● Aug. 3, 2022
Perched in a captain’s chair, a padded-leather lounger with two footrests, he spins the Teresa around and drives into the larger vessel’s wake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Each motorcycle had its passenger footrests down in honor of their extra “riders.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
They’re as big as the lounge chairs in the renovated chains, but they don’t recline; they have footrests like barbershop chairs, and you have to sort of climb into them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2017
“I’ll just go back,” I say as she raises my footrests.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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