barefoot

Example Sentences

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They walked in single file, many of them barefoot, carrying flowers, handing out bracelets and picking up new followers along the way.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

Devotees bearing offerings such as milk pots or carrying elaborate and heavy metal frames called "kavadis" walked barefoot up 272 steps to reach the temple.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

The footage showed Noah returning to his home at Fitzroy Avenue at about 04:08 on the same morning barefoot and without his headphones.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

Hunter is a new flavor of “Star Trek” skipper; casual and compact, she curls up in her captain’s chair, stretches out wherever convenient and goes about barefoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

The main road was crowded; women with boxes on their heads and babies tied to their backs, barefoot children carrying bundles of clothes or yams or boxes, men dragging bicycles.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie