Example sentences for: underfoot

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Also underfoot is the venerable "cousin Don" theory of literature--you know: "You're a writer?

  • Without protection for those marginal, cosmopolitan souls who cling to it tenuously, Manhattan would become much more the way people who don't live here imagine it, a soulless playground for yuppies, with an alienated underclass underfoot.


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