shoeless

Example Sentences

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In the annals of strategic oversteps in America’s post-9/11 forever war, our shoeless airport security lines will go down as a footnote.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2025

He struts around shirtless and shoeless; his wife and homeschooled sons, Stryker and Rad, pad about barefooted as well.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

She said they arrived to find Nancy Iskander, the boys’ mother, shoeless.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

“It was a death sentence,” said Hassan Abu Shadkh, whose brothers, 43-year-old Ramadan and 18-year-old Bashar, and his 38-year-old cousin, Naseem Abu Shadkh, walked shoeless over jagged mounds of debris until their feet bled.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2023

I remember those first days so clearly, walking around, shoeless, feeling the warmth of wooden floorboards underfoot, relishing the space, the emptiness of all those rooms waiting to be filled.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins