leaden foot
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heavy and slow-moving feet, often due to tiredness or sadness
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Examples (10)
- After a long day, she walked home with leaden feet.
- His leaden feet struggled to carry him up the stairs.
- The news left her with a heavy heart and leaden feet.
- With leaden feet, he approached the difficult conversation.
- Every step felt like a burden, as if he had leaden feet.
- She dragged her leaden feet across the finish line.
- The exhaustion gave him leaden feet, slowing his pace.
- His mind was willing, but his leaden feet refused to move faster.
- Walking through the thick mud, he felt his feet turn leaden.
- The children, tired from playing, moved with leaden feet towards bedtime.