Example Sentences

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Sometimes Joseph, in his slapdash style, put in too much, and the bubbles outgrew the fountain, creating ever-widening concentric foam rings that burst their fragile stickiness on someone’s sandalled foot.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019

I could see their sandalled feet, the hems of their clothes.

From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2018

You sense from the hands, arms, neck, and one bare shoulder, and the sandalled feet, the whole of a gaunt, sinewy body, which you can all but smell.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 2, 2015

With no wasted episodes, Spartacus never drags its sandalled feet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2013

The matron’s little daughter, a straight, slender, bright-haired child, came with her, and when Pincho sniffed curiously at her little sandalled feet she did not draw back, but stooped and patted his head.

From The Childhood of Rome by Lamprey, Louise