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
There isn’t a straightforward reason behind why it’s so common to go barefoot.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024
My daughter loves the fountains and the fact that you can go barefoot in the river.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
They wear nature in their curly hair – acorn headbands, leaf fascinators, grass caps – and famously, go barefoot.
From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022
He had no shoes, so Clara took a pair that belonged to Esteban Trueba, for everyone to see that he would not go barefoot to heaven.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
