BAREFOOT in a Sentence

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The sick soldier, Sokolov, pale and thin with dark shadows round his eyes, alone sat in his place barefoot and not dressed.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAREFOOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
barefoot
 a.  without shoes
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
2  If the decision has been to go barefoot, all go barefoot.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
3  This family was that of the merry barefoot boy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE
4  One cannot go barefoot to the good God, he added bitterly.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—STRATEGY AND TACTICS
5  There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS
6  their shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
7  A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
8  There was one pilgrim, a quiet pockmarked little woman of fifty called Theodosia, who for over thirty years had gone about barefoot and worn heavy chains.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
9  The old man was already sitting barefoot.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
10  The sick soldier, Sokolov, pale and thin with dark shadows round his eyes, alone sat in his place barefoot and not dressed.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
11  He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
13  Lena Lingard came across the stubble barefoot, in a short skirt, with a curved reaping-hook in her hand, and she was flushed like the dawn, with a kind of luminous rosiness all about her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  As I am here beside you, barefoot, unclothed, undistinguishable in darkness, so must I lie through all the night of my decay, until I am dust.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  And as for looking like a ragamuffin, you should thank your stars your husband didn't come home barefooted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
2  I wore a white dress and was barefoot.
3  They all walked barefoot across the damp sand to the water's edge.
4  The sun blazed down on all of us: friends, family, servants and a cluster of barefoot neighborhood kids.
5  My favorite seat was a smooth and broad stone, rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water; a feat I accomplished barefoot.
6  Some dozen barefooted urchins ganged in from the riverside.