A lever and gear worked by a treadle on the footplate controlled the position of the eccentrics.
One I remember struck the footplate of the engine scarcely a yard from my face, lit up into a bright yellow flash, and left me wondering why I was still alive.
The engine was about six inches wider than the tender, and the corner of itsfootplate would not pass the corner of the newly overturned truck.
But again the corner of the footplate jammed with the corner of the truck, and again we came to a jarring halt.
When he slid back to the footplate his legs were wet to the mid shin.
Kent clambered to the footplate of the smart eight-wheeler.
Suddenly he drops to the footplate to grip Callahan's arm.
The two branches of the stapes are anterior and posterior, while the footplate fits into the fenestra ovalis and is bound to it by a membrane.
The vestibule lies just internal to the posterior part of the tympanum, and there would be a communication between the two, through the fenestra ovalis, were it not that the footplate of the stapes blocks the way.
The writer will never forget two or three trying experiences in foreign tunnels, when he and the engine-staff were compelled to leave the footplate and climb forward to the front of the funnel, leaving the engine to work its way alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "footplate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
