noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hear
▪
I heard his footfalls upon the stairs.
▪
He heard a footfall in the passage outside and felt his pulse quicken.
▪
Crying Steve's name with relief, she swung round as she heard a footfall on the dry brush behind her.
▪
Meg felt her ears sing in an effort to hear the first footfall on the stair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Her reverie was disturbed by a footfall on the stair.
▪
I hear leather soles smacking the flagstones rapidly, they stop, then heavier, rubber footfalls, then voices.
▪
I listened to his decisive footfalls approach me.
▪
I turned and plunged downwards, hoping my footfalls would be masked by his, making-plans as I went.
▪
No footfall announces her, but there she is, standing where before there was nobody when Denver looked.
▪
Then, they were the footfalls of voters turning away from him in the opinion polls as scandals sucked him downward.
▪
They moved up the corridor, their footfalls against the bare boards sending out hollow echoes.
▪
They sounded like the footfalls of a drunken giant.