How to Use barefoot in a Sentence

barefoot

adverb or adjective
  • Elsewhere, men, women and children walk barefoot among a sea of tents made of flimsy sheeting.
    Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Go barefoot, though, and your foot is flat on the floor.
    K. Aleisha Fetters, SELF, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Then the train passes a slum, where a boy stands barefoot on the side of the road.
    Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • When Zsa Zsa called her, LaTonya rushed out of the house barefoot to their home.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The film ends with a view of the child walking, barefoot, on a table.
    Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Teens lined up barefoot and smoked so much pot in the men’s room that the staff had to remove the stall doors.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The two would go outside barefoot and throw the football back and forth.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In 2018, Kristin Stewart took off her heels in the middle of the red carpet and walked the rest of the way barefoot.
    Louis Pisano, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 July 2021
  • Make a pot of soup, bake a pie, take a bubble bath, dance barefoot.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Near the end of the last glaciation, a group of people walked barefoot along the shores of Lake Natron.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 18 May 2020
  • About two hours before the game, Beckham warmed up barefoot for a bit on the field.
    cleveland, 12 Sep. 2021
  • She was last seen wearing gray pants and a pink shirt and might have been barefoot.
    Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2021
  • Loose shoes — like, flip-flops ― are a no-no, and so is going barefoot.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
  • His feet didn’t show signs of having walked a long way barefoot.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
  • In the next photo, their two kids stand barefoot on the beach holding the sonogram in their hands.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • She was last seen wearing gray pants, a pink shirt and may have been barefoot.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 July 2021
  • The next month, Murphy joined them for the Vogue cover, barefoot on the beach in floral gowns.
    WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
  • And working out barefoot can be good for the foot itself, too.
    Julia Ries, Health, 26 May 2023
  • For now, though, relish the simple joy of walking barefoot in the grass.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 18 May 2023
  • JP Sipla, a 44-year-old member, is one of those golfers who plays his rounds barefoot.
    New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The children plowed the fields barefoot and wore shoes only in winter.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Images from the scene showed McGee barefoot and covered in dirt, with streaks of blood on her left leg.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Just barefoot on a beach and just be able to renew that with our children by then...
    Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 June 2024
  • Kravchenko opened the door barefoot and apologized for her dirty feet.
    New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The inmates said that they were given boxers and kept barefoot in a yard for hours.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Her feet still bore the injuries of having walked barefoot.
    Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • The soldiers, some of them barefoot, had been marched brutally for miles in snow and cold.
    Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The Duke of Sussex, also barefoot, wears a button-down shirt and pants.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Nine or ten, skinny legs, barefoot, peering out of the shed at the water rushing down the path.
    Paul Theroux, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
  • And then a hundred people marching barefoot in the rain.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2022

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