Example sentences for: underfoot

How can you use “underfoot” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At a press conference, someone asked the ConEd guy if the swirly new Op Art underfoot might not dangerously addle drunks stumbling through the gutters of Times Square--a splendid old-fashioned kind of Hildy Johnson question, I thought.

  • Even though every square inch is embellished, right down to the tiles underfoot, somehow the hall isn’t overpowering or claustrophobic.

  • The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot.

  • Be aware that the surface underfoot is very slippery, and take a flashlight for better visibility.

  • The junks are a picturesque sight: children frolicking on the poop deck, women preparing food or playing mah-jong, elderly folk watching the sunset, dogs and cats underfoot, songbirds in bamboo cages overhead — and all afloat.


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