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footrace [foo t-reys] ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of footrace First recorded in 1655–65; foot + race1 Examples from the Web for footrace Contemporary Examples of footrace
Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.
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Emily Shire
March 11, 2014
Historical Examples of footrace
He wanted to fight and was going to have a fight or a footrace with the first Indians he met.
Dennis Collins
With serious irony he asks himself, if a runner who is overcome in a footrace can hope to outstrip horses?
The Expositor’s Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah
C J Ball
Hence, they never went to sleep, and in only a single instance recorded in history had a tortoise won a footrace from a hare.
Joseph A. Altsheler
The rebels had a fair field for a footrace; hence the adjutant’s mistake.
Recollections with the Third Iowa Regiment
Seymour D. (Seymour Dwight) Thompson
What was contemplated as a triumphal reentrance becomes a footrace to the nearest ready-made clothing store.
Irvin S. Cobb