unshod

Example Sentences

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Look: a man stopped on a street corner, standing stork-like on one leg, his foot temporarily unshod as he tugs up a drooping sock.

From The New Yorker

According to a new study of shod and unshod walkers in the Journal Nature, wearing shoes when we walk is changing how our feet interact with the ground below us.

From Scientific American

But the initial research into barefoot runners focused on a particular group of unshod runners—the Kalenjin, of Kenya—who tended to land on their forefeet.

From Scientific American

Their horses are all unshod, are marvellously surefooted, and will go at a gallop over places where an English horse could scarcely walk.

From Project Gutenberg

He led fieldwork in Ethiopia, culminating in a report in the March 29 New England Journal of Medicine that explains, finally, why not everyone who traverses the red soil unshod sacrifices their feet.

From Scientific American