Definition of “footstep”

He strained his ears and thought he heard the faint crunch of a footstep on gravel in the garden outside.

Her scrapbook and diary are close at hand and Skippy barks excitedly if he hears a footstep on the path outside.

I heard a footstep close at hand and, looking beyond Lucian, I saw Jemima Cray walking close to the stable on her way to the house.

I was a pace from the door when I heard a scraping, stealthy footstep in the corridor outside.

On Lilburn's long walks, the terror of nature, that weary old Canadian theme, echoes with each snow-crunching footstep.

Stephanie McMillan, 15, told Hamilton Sheriff Court that Ashley Grant, 13, had been only a footstep away when she was hit by the taxi.

You cannot look on too large a scale to help you understand a solitary footstep through the landscape, a single crystal on a cliff.