go barefoot
Example Sentences
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The weak controls aren’t a good look, evoking the old proverb about the shoemaker whose children go barefoot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
New Zealanders — and their Australian cousins — like to go barefoot.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
They wear nature in their curly hair – acorn headbands, leaf fascinators, grass caps – and famously, go barefoot.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
If Imelda Marcos and Oliver Twist switched jobs, at least Oliver wouldn’t have had to go barefoot.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
It was easy to trip over things in this apartment, and not a good idea to go barefoot.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
