Example Sentences

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In “Incredibles 2,” the government can’t be relied on, but it also, until recently, had been footing the bill for the Incredibles.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2018

It was, by chance, the very tune to which they had been footing when he died, and unable to bear its notes, she hastily told her driver to drop behind. 

From A Changed Man; and other tales by Hardy, Thomas

The boat had been footing it strongly, since Peter had eased her off a point.

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)