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UK
/bˈeəfʊtɪd/
]
ADVERB
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without shoes on
he chased her barefoot across the meadow
ADJECTIVE
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without shoes
shoeless Joe Jackson
the barefoot boy
How To Use barefooted In A Sentence
- Even Larry, barefooted now, and with both hands tightly clenched, such was his wrought-up condition, stood and watched with burning eyes as the aeroplane sank lower and lower in its forward swoop. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck
- I'm in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and I'm barefooted.
- Some time about the year 1827, two sturdy lads, tall and well proportioned but clad in homespun and barefooted, came to "Dryden Corners" from the South Hill neighborhood, driving an ox team and bringing to market a wagon load of pine shingles which they had shaved by hand. Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives
- The sun is a bright Caribbean yellow, made even richer by the tropical blue sky, and even though it's only mid-morning, barefooted beachcombers weave along the water's edge to keep the soles of their feet cool.
- Yelling at him to be patient, she clambered into a pair of brigga, pulled on a shirt, and ran barefooted to unbar the door and let him in. A TIME OF WAR
- Some of his hair was also burnt and his feet were swollen, the after effects of his barefooted trot out of the forest.
- I kicked them off and carried them, running barefooted down the road, not even noticing when my feet began to bleed from the rough road scraping them.
- Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.
- A strange barefooted slide across the floor is required and my feet keep sticking.
- From the mountainous piles of refuse, of "culm," barefooted children, nearly as black as their miner fathers, were tramping homeward with burdens of coal that they had gleaned from the waste. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines