underfoot

Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with deep cracks.

"As soon as people arrived on the scene, their use of the cave was very intensive, with clear evidence of burning and trampling of the shelter floor underfoot."

What they build instead — by de-paving key areas to open up planting beds and turning the excavated chunks into new walls or mosaic-like hardscapes underfoot — seems to work visually in Philadelphia, too.

“You’re underfoot, little dude,” says Dad as he makes his way from the fridge to the front of the store.

Wild flowers and pinecones, not shrapnel, were underfoot as I walked along a stretch of the border with Israeli military officers.