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
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
After practice, they’ll all go to the beach or out to lunch at one of those fancy places where you can’t go barefoot like you can at my favorite place, Saucepan Lynn’s.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
