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
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
If Imelda Marcos and Oliver Twist switched jobs, at least Oliver wouldn’t have had to go barefoot.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021
The shoes are too big—passed on from an older boy who died at the orphanage last month—but Reverend Hunt says I can’t go barefoot in the New World.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
