How to Use barefoot in a Sentence

barefoot

adverb or adjective
  • Dance, cry, write, scream, walk barefoot in the grass.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 26 Oct. 2025
  • One part of you wants to dance barefoot under the stars.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 28 Nov. 2025
  • That said, being barefoot on a plane is gross.
    — Mariana Zapata, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
  • His feet didn’t show signs of having walked a long way barefoot.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2022
  • Avoid walking on the trail barefoot or in open-toed shoes.
    — Jasmine Mendez follow, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Kept running, barefoot, as the bus picked up speed.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Some of them are barefoot, caked in dirt, barely able to stand.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Maria, 32, grabbed her phone and ran down the stairs barefoot.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 29 June 2026
  • Make a pot of soup, bake a pie, take a bubble bath, dance barefoot.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Don’t get caught out in the dunes barefoot and burn the bottoms of your feet.
    — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
  • She was last seen wearing gray pants, a pink shirt and may have been barefoot.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 July 2021
  • Not only naked but barefoot, too.
    — Agnieszka Szpila, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • She was last seen wearing gray pants and a pink shirt and might have been barefoot.
    — Harriet Sokmensuer, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2021
  • Then the train passes a slum, where a boy stands barefoot on the side of the road.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Don't walk around the hallways barefoot.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Loose shoes — like, flip-flops ― are a no-no, and so is going barefoot.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
  • Partiers hitched up their dresses and rolled up their trousers to dance barefoot in the pool.
    — L'oréal Blackett, Refinery29, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Some yelp in pain after stepping barefoot on a peanut or toy.
    — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Glover took off his socks and shoes, hiked up his gray pants and went barefoot into the creek.
    — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025
  • And working out barefoot can be good for the foot itself, too.
    — Julia Ries, Health, 26 May 2023
  • That grew into me training barefoot all the time for two or three years.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Dec. 2025
  • Old guys stomping grapes barefoot.
    — John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The two would go outside barefoot and throw the football back and forth.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The film ends with a view of the child walking, barefoot, on a table.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
  • What do airlines say about being barefoot on a flight?
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The question of whether driving barefoot is safe isn't so cut and dry.
    — Georgea Kovanis, The Courier-Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The question of whether driving barefoot is safe isn't so cut and dry.
    — Georgea Kovanis, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Kravchenko opened the door barefoot and apologized for her dirty feet.
    — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Your toddler is barefoot in the backyard again.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
  • One model skipped, some walked barefoot, others were shy.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025

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