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Example sentences for "feet were"

  • At about six or seven in the morning, Mansing's feet were untied, but not his hands.

  • About half an hour after this incident my feet were untied.

  • We crossed the pass, and halted directly on the northern side of it, for my men's feet were in such a condition that they could bear the pain no longer.

  • Already my feet were so weary that they would no longer support me.

  • But now Angelique realised that her feet were bare, and that Felicien saw them.

  • It represented Christ on the Cross, and the drops of blood from His side and His feet were made by little splashes of red silk on the cloth of gold, while in the foreground was Mary, tenderly supported by Saint John.

  • I then, according to the regulations, should commence the stations, lacerated as my feet were after so long a journey; so that I had not a moment to rest.

  • When the three days expired, I was taken out of this room, but did not go to work again till my feet were healed.

  • I accepted them gratefully, but the shoes I could not wear, my feet were so sore.

  • She expressed great sympathy for the sad condition my feet were in, and asked if I had no shoes?

  • My feet were in such a terrible condition--so full of thorns, so swollen with numberless jiggers which had bored channels under my nails and under the soles--that I really felt I could not walk another step.

  • My feet were so swollen, and with hardly a patch of skin left on them, that I could walk no more.

  • My feet were full of thorns, so numerous that I had not the energy to remove them.

  • That day my feet were indeed in a pitiable condition.

  • The fore- and hind-feet were five-toed, with well-developed pollex and hallux.

  • The fore-feet were five-toed, of which the three inner toes had claws.

  • The fore-feet were five-toed, the hind four-toed.

  • One day I passed the guard and went out to the hospital, but my feet were bare, and I was advised by a sick man who had been out not to try it.

  • My boots were worn out, and my feet were bare.

  • My feet were bare, and the rice or mush would boil over on them, and as I jumped back I was sure to land in some other fellow’s fire.

  • My feet were so much worse that it was utterly impossible to get my shoes on.

  • At this time my feet were so very much swollen and very sore that I could not wear my shoes; but I kept my stockings on until the foot parts of them were worn out, and even then I found their legs of great service in frosty weather.

  • An acre raised from a 12 foot rod would, if feet were invariable, be little more than half our modern statute acre.

  • The largest trees grew in New England where diameters of six or more feet and heights exceeding 200 feet were found.

  • And it was not cold at all, as I expected, but warm and very pleasant, and when my feet were in it I felt as if they were in silk, or as if the nymph were kissing them.

  • I was not cold; but my feet were chilled in a quite extraordinary manner, as if they had been packed in ice.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feet were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another example; brief notice; coming back; dear daughter; feet above the floor; feet above the level; feet above the sea; feet broad; feet dark; feet diameter; feet from the ground; feet from the surface; feet high; feet higher; feet lower; feet square; feet stroke; feet tall; feet were; good marriage; long narrow; medical jurisprudence; natural objects; neutral ports; not right; other sects