foot
noun
(in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
were footing
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past progressiveof foot.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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As the search disastrously proceeded, he burned through money on the production as though Paramount Pictures were footing the bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
Bankman-Fried authorized investments in K5 projects that enriched Kives and Baum with no payoff for FTX or its customers, who were footing the bill, FTX alleged.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2023
In 2016, the newspaper found that the state's residents were footing 90 percent of the bill for cleanups.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023
Twitter was only free in a nominal sense, given that our attention and our data were footing the bill—somewhat precariously, it turns out, given the lackluster advertising revenues.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022
Although sails curved with wind and they were footing much faster than the other boats, the course they had chosen would force them to sail a much longer distance.
From Guilt of the Brass Thieves by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
