How to Use footloose in a Sentence

footloose

adjective

• When she was 20, she was footloose and fancy-free, with no family or serious career to tie her down.
• While Reed is now a divorced corporate suit who’s estranged from his wife, Elena remains the footloose hippie of her university days.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 4 May 2022
• And at last, everybody got the chance to cut footloose.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the 1960s, the tiny radios came to symbolize the footloose freedom of youth.
  — Virginia Postrel, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2013
• This is not by any means an excuse to hit the beach, footloose and sunscreen-free.
  — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 7 Feb. 2022
• This year has proven a challenging one for the footloose and fancy free.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2020
• If your dad, like many others, likes to get footloose with styling his socks, add this pack of a dozen to your cart ASAP.
  — Simona Matovic, oregonlive, 12 June 2019
• Berry 45—the authorities saw the footloose rocker as a threat to the status quo.
  — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Maybe the 2000-yard barrier is within reach for a stress-free and footloose Elliott.
  — Clarence E. Hill J., star-telegram, 9 May 2018
• Only a Bert would get so mad at the judgmental prodding of some footloose Ernie.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• There was once a time not so long ago when teen television was pretty footloose and fancy free.
  — refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
• My inalienable right to wander around footloose and fancy-free just got snuffed.
  — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021
• But Mr. Panter, 66, is creatively footloose and has never been content to just draw comics and paint.
  — Dana Jennings, New York Times, 21 July 2017
• Audrey Hepburn gets footloose and fancy free in this Gershwin classic from the 1950s that’s set in the fashion salons of the always chic and stylish city of Paree.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
• This is the first time that Kushner may face a consequence for his so-far footloose ascent within his father-in-law’s domain.
  — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 27 Mar. 2017
• Four years later, the social media–savvy designer is in demand for his classic yet footloose style.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 27 Oct. 2016
• Four years later, the social media–savvy designer is in demand for his classic yet footloose style.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 27 Oct. 2016
• Aleppo in those days was a magnet for footloose journalists and adventure tourists.
  — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
• Based on the novel of the same name, the musical tells the story of an Italian war bride trapped in rural Iowa who falls in love with a footloose photographer while her family is out of town.
  — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• The idea that staying childless and footloose is more satisfying is, on average, wrong.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• But beneath that is something unexpected and even richer: anger at herself for having failed to care in time about the squalid carelessness of a tossed-off, footloose life.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is heading into the 2018 season footloose and stress-free.
  — Clarence E. Hill J., star-telegram, 9 May 2018
• His footloose life changed when his mother was diagnosed with dementia.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022
• And yet here are a couple dozen kids enjoying—truly enjoying—the footloose, kinetic freedom of the moment.
  — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
• While Gordon was born nearly a generation after the Summer of Love, her peripatetic path would fit right into that footloose era.
  — Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
• The siren call of the road is instilled in her by her footloose father (Timothy Hutton), who believes in travel as life’s ultimate education.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2020
• While studying at Juilliard, Williams moonlighted as a jazz pianist in nightclubs, and those two skills — formal and footloose — created an alchemy for film scoring.
  — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Gellhorn tired of Hemingway's footloose, bar-hopping lifestyle based in Old Havana hotels.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• And in what reads like an embarrassing instance of wish-fulfillment, Rachel Carson, the Hillary figure, is safely dead, leaving Duncan footloose and free to enjoy the world’s sympathy.
  — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 16 June 2018
• The Diamondbacks’ lineup has provided little support as well, stranding too many base runners and lacking any hitters as footloose and fret-free as the Dodgers’ tongue-flapping, bat-flipping Yasiel Puig.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024