How to Use footpath in a Sentence

footpath

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  • That scene on the footpath through the aviary where that too-tall shape walks out of the mist?
    — Emma Stefansky, GQ, 21 June 2018
  • Part of the 1,500-mile footpath runs through the forest.
    — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Park in the Valley Falls Park parking lot and take the footpath to the barn.
    — courant.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Turn right and follow a footpath on the west side of the highway.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
  • There’s no guard rail on the footpath and the breathless climb back up is a knee-buster.
    — Keli Dailey, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Follow a footpath or walk through a dark tunnel to get to a small lake in the park.
    — Nick Kontis, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • A footpath takes visitors through the park to the tunes of pounding waves.
    — Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
  • At one point, Bahrman allegedly sat down on the footpath and placed his weapon on the ground.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
  • For lofty views of the town, there's a hike up the footpath to the ruins of the 11th-century Vipava Castle.
    — Mary Novakovich, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The footpath winds past piles of junked cars, and over marshy tundra with the texture of a wet sponge, toward a mud pit.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Bahrman allegedly walked toward a footpath on the west side of the store, still holding the weapon.
    — oregonlive, 1 Mar. 2023
  • That footpath served as the base for the trail visitors can walk today.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Take a quiet stroll down Lover's Lane, the oldest footpath through the Presidio.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2021
  • She was last seen with Paul Flores on a campus footpath leading to the dorms.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Some of the trails are footpaths, littered with old clothes and human feces, that wind through brush.
    — Juan Forero |, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Outside the reserve: tired wheat fields, cracked earth, and a maze of footpaths grooved by cheap plastic shoes.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 15 May 2019
  • People have worn a footpath cutting through the lot to Presbury Street.
    — Ian Duncan, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2017
  • In warmer months, hikers can trek along a section of the Finger Lakes Trail, a 580-mile footpath that stretches across the state.
    — Jonathan Olivier, Outside Online, 21 Aug. 2018
  • Traveling on footpaths is much shorter, less than two miles town to town, but the route comes with 1,500 steps.
    — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Known to locals as Bank Alley, the footpath isn’t more than eight feet wide and is framed by seven-foot-high brick walls.
    — Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2018
  • For an outdoor treat, take a quiet stroll down Lover's Lane, the oldest footpath through the Presidio.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2023
  • The least congested footpath to the cabin begins at the Long Canyon trailhead.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 9 May 2018
  • Granted, school is necessary and good and a footpath leading to the universe of ideas.
    — Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • The victims were shot along a footpath under the Madison Avenue bridge.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 20 June 2022
  • The pavement ends, the footpath disappears, and the game trail dissolves into swamp.
    — Dave Karczynski, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Police scoured the area along a wooded footpath that Kathleen often used to get home.
    — Nicholas Rondinone, courant.com, 18 June 2019
  • The only link to the rest of the country, and the outside world, is over a mountain footpath — a brisk one-hour hike through a steep valley — that leads to a nearby road.
    — Photographs and Text By Bryan Denton, New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • Benches along the footpaths overlook the seven coves on the property at the rocky shoreline.
    — James Herrera, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • And the vast majority of the footpath leading to the top of Multnomah Falls is covered in rocks.
    — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Now the virus has brought those countryside customs to the newly spacious city streets and footpaths.
    — Rose George, The New York Review of Books, 10 Apr. 2020

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