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
Mara Scalise’s sparkling chain anklet is ideal for the person on your list who likes to go barefoot.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
They wear nature in their curly hair – acorn headbands, leaf fascinators, grass caps – and famously, go barefoot.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022
They pinched her feet and made her long to go barefoot, but she wore them, if not meekly, at least with determined obedience.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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