underfoot

Like walking through a sparse forest in early autumn, the air sharp with smoke from a campfire, leaves underfoot brittle enough to crack.

Meanwhile, the sniffer dogs at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia were wearing Crocs due to the temperature of the concrete underfoot.

"The hills look burnt," he said, adding that peatland, usually wet and boggy, "is now crunchy" underfoot.

They took a toll, onerously so, like an undertow at the ocean shoreline that yanks you down into the muddy sand underfoot, and my debt more than quadrupled.

In no time at all, Amy is wandering the halls, peeking in on patients, getting underfoot.