How To Use Underfoot In A Sentence

Behind is a huge, bright yellow full moon, and the grassy field underfoot is composed of green, blue, and brown.
To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them. The Sun
The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
Half a foot of overnight snowfall that stops with the dawn is about perfect, guaranteeing that any tracks you cross will be fresh and the snow underfoot will be silent. The Deer Tracker's Handbook

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And the apples are all underfoot among the yew trees, so it smells like a cider press in the kitchen," Mary said. CHARMED LIFE
Fortunately, despite the recent bad weather, the underfoot conditions were reasonably good and it proved an entertaining match until heavy rain marred the final 20 minutes.
The ground underfoot is often unstable, and some of the currents are extremely strong.
And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. Through Russia
The advocates of summer rugby will have loved it as the firm ground underfoot encouraged the two teams to play some terrific expansive rugby.
The reality is that left to their own devices, most businesses that emit pollution will follow the money, even if that means treading punitively on the environment underfoot. Edward Flattau: Environmental Masochism
The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
The earth shook and quivered underfoot.
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot. A Model Victory
He tried to think backthe ship, overrun with demons; Isabelle falling and Jace catching her; blood, everywhere underfoot, the demon attacking Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
My lifelong entanglement with pay phones dates me; when I was young they were just there, a given, often as stubborn and uncongenial as the curbstone underfoot.
Anybody who stood in his path was trampled underfoot. The Sun
The moisture removing feature of our air conditioners keep the air clear, but the unpleasant feeling underfoot is much more difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of. Safety Japan
It was still wet underfoot.
I walked back to my car, snow crunching underfoot, unlocked the doors, and slipped into the back.
The rain made conditions underfoot rather slippy, but that did not seem to deter the hundreds of children who participated in the various events all afternoon.
The ground underfoot was soggy, with mud pushing between Sekher's toes.
A fat-eyed parrotfish darted quickly underfoot and Peter swayed, one of his leg braces clinking against the back of a chair. DO NO HARM
But how will I live without something watertight underfoot, you ask?
She was aware of every small noise around her, from the smallest twig snapping underfoot to the cries of foreign birds.
It teemed rain from once we set foot on the trail, the underfoot conditions were such that it was like wading through a soft riverbed, it was blowing a gale in the valleys and a hurricane up top.
International law has been trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The discomfort underfoot was gone, the metal grids replaced by a beige floor covering softer than sand.
Hardwood flooring lies underfoot and an unusual sandstone fireplace with cast-iron inset forms a focal point.
One surprising inclusion was the humble partridgeberry, a plant often underfoot and overlooked.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
The earth was soft and spongy underfoot.
He carelessly trod the lady beetle underfoot.
On a day when the underfoot conditions tested the courage of horses all over the country, one performance at Sandown shone out for the sheer bravery of the horse concerned.
Underfoot, the wild vibration of the centrifuge had likewise died.
Moving carefully, checking the ground underfoot and the supports overhead as he went, he moved towards it.
Perhaps it's best not to think of the sea of grubs, flies and beetles there must be underfoot.
Competition was keen as the youngsters negotiated the testing courses that easily cut up following heavy overnight rain and made for slippy underfoot conditions.
Loose tiles clinked underfoot and I glimpsed spoiled frescoes which had faded, mildewed or simply disappeared under whitewash.
To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Some guidebooks describe this ridge as relentless, and it is, but underfoot conditions are good and it's just a question of plodding upwards with ever widening views all around you as consolation.
The wet wood is very slippery underfoot.
The slippery and wet ground underfoot also dampened any prospect of a free-flowing game.
The grass was cool and pleasant underfoot.
In difficult underfoot conditions, both sides played some excellent football, and while the visitors led for most of the hour, the result was in the balance until the final whistle.
My bare feet were tickled by the cool, dewy grass underfoot.
Rain seriously affected matters in the tea interval, and we had to bowl on a wet pitch, which soon became very muddy and slippery underfoot, making bowling extremely difficult.
For a mile I strolled along the river, the water the colour of weak tea, the short grass firm underfoot.
The snow underfoot is hard and crystalline, and grates beneath my crampons with a sound of metal on metal.
At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot. A Model Victory
Tomorrow's underfoot conditions are ideal for her to score again in this six furlongs dash.
Anything that gets in the way, from human rights to the environment, is trampled underfoot.
I think there were some articles at LAF about keeping house with children "underfoot" but i haven't had time to locate them. Get in on Life...
He trod the golden beetle underfoot.
Firm underfoot conditions greeted the teams, neither of whom were at full strength.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
You are warned that some of the art from an alien spaceship has escaped; you are advised to keep watching the shadows; given a code of gestures; you glimpse video of Matt Smith which tantalisingly breaks up as he is in the middle of issuing vital instructions; underfoot you will feel the cindery rubble of a 21st-century crash site and the soft, matted straw from a place in the 19th-century. That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike – review
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
This agreement, made in secret and implemented autocratically, tramples underfoot the democratic rights of refugees.
Injuries may have been caused by people panicking and crushing others underfoot in their rush to leave buildings. Growing Through Loss and Grief
The carpet of pine needles was soft underfoot.
Or would she trample it underfoot in the slush where our love lay? Times, Sunday Times
The taste buds of humans can change significantly over the years and, similarly, the preferences that horses have for underfoot ground conditions can also alter. Times, Sunday Times
It's usually really cold, the ground underfoot gets muddy and the badly controlled crowd management means that it takes ages to leave.
Choose broadloom carpet if a plush, cushy feeling underfoot is important to creating the desired image.
Higher up the ridge underfoot conditions improve where the ground becomes stony.
Walking across the beach with a board that could have been assembled from the same trash underfoot would make quite a splash...and maybe even help earn some of that eco-warrior cred back. Peter Hanlon: Fine Art Surfboards. Made From Trash.
He's a little less coordinated, too, and I've noted for the past few months that he's sometimes "underfoot" and also gives me flat tires in his desire to rush ahead or rush around when we're going for a walk. May 2009
Suddenly we were outside, on a flat roof sprinkled with loose chippings that crunched underfoot. TOY SHOP
Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin's and Mao's lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke. Fake Independence and the Mercurial Stance of Undivided Communist Party: CPM’s Hotchpotch View on Semi Colony and Neo colony
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
When the members of the Commission arrive in Palestine, they are shocked to find leaflets circulating among the Arabs showing Ernst Röhm in an Arab robe and burnoose, trampling Jews underfoot. DBTL 55: Palestine 1932 - 1945
The grass was cool and pleasant underfoot.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
The snow on the tops made for treacherous underfoot conditions and the race organisers decided to turn the runners before they reached the 2,100 ft summit because of hidden rocks.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
Between the viaduct and the seafront you crush the brittle flowers underfoot.
The ground stirred underfoot, enough to shake the group of four, but not enough for them to lose their equilibrium.
Iced sardines are trodden underfoot to soften them up.
Any expression of class solidarity was trampled underfoot and the working class suppressed and disciplined.
Morgan dropped his cigarette and crushed it underfoot.
The ground underfoot was still hopelessly boggy, and as I jumped the half metre distance from the van to the floor, little specks of mud flew everywhere.
Underfoot irregular, pebbles lay like aggregate and chips of stone protruded from the compacted ground, as desiccated and brittle as human bone.
Fabulously tiled rooms, such as kitchen-diners and hallways, are transformed from practical to inviting when they're warm underfoot.
But 'twill take root and flourish still, tho 'underfoot 'tis trod; The Golden Book of Favorite Songs
trampled the beans underfoot
Despite the difficult underfoot conditions, this game produced a good standard of hurling with the intensity of the exchanges providing a high level of entertainment for the big crowd.
With improving underfoot conditions better suited to our style of play, and hopes of a full-strength team, there will be no better time for a home encounter with the league's second placed team.
This is only done on a dry day when the ground is not boggy underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Many people were trampled/crushed underfoot when the police tried to break up the demonstration.
With the seasonal rains only just ending, the open field soon turned muddy underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The grass was cool and pleasant underfoot.
And obviously with the fairly heavy rain that had fallen it was very soft underfoot.
A few metres into this little wood, and it feels like another world, the fans of mulga branches spreading above me, patches of delicate ferns growing between clumps of grass underfoot.
In fact, he was constantly underfoot on the court.
We walked on and Heiser pointed out the western wallflowers underfoot, and the prairie smoke, a flower whose thin, hairlike fruits look, collectively, like a red mist.
Long stalactites menaced my head, and nasty little spikelike formations underfoot threatened to impale me if I should slip and fall. Perseus Spur
The lighting is blue, underfoot the floor is black and the scaffolding glints in the twilight.
I could hear the pops, the creaks, the rumbling of the ice underfoot and all around.
Crisp yellow leaves scrunched satisfyingly underfoot, giving off a sweet sad scent.
Trains were being announced yet at the same time there was swampy, spongy soil underfoot. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
This is perfect walking country: hillsides carpeted with yellow gorse, crunchy patches of bracken scattered here and there, springy soil underfoot.
It was almost romantic here, with only bits of bird song and twigs crunching underfoot to break the hush.
When a tribe encounters civilization, the first things to get trampled underfoot are the religious beliefs of the tribe.
Underfoot it was slippery and there was a strong, blustery breeze.
the snow was firm underfoot
A knight of the realm was trampled underfoot. The Sun
The snow underfoot wassoft and deep.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
All of his wins have been gained on pretty testing ground and underfoot conditions are likely to livelier tomorrow.
The mud underfoot is fast becoming a river and various members of the crew are skidding and staggering across the car park, like inebriated Bambis.
There was neither road nor house, only a saguaro here, a barrel cactus there, a lot of sand underfoot, and even more sun overhead.
With the seasonal rains only just ending, the open field soon turned muddy underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The thud of artillery shook sandy ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
And when earthquakes hit mining regions, remember that the ground underfoot is mostly hollow. Yes, you can have earthquakes too. « Pennamite
Clothes were trampled underfoot, first-aid kits had been ripped open and their contents thrown across the lawn. Times, Sunday Times
A movement to promote female role models in technology is underfoot and you can help. Ada Lovelace « Barb’s Computing Blog
Biting winds, heavy rain, sleet showers and muddy underfoot conditions conspired to make life extremely difficult for the players.
For example, for Thanksgiving dinner you can give them tasks, because they're kind of underfoot in the kitchen. CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2005
Luckily, the drive was tarmacked, so there was no chance of anyone in the house hearing me crunch gravel underfoot. KICK BACK
Rusty paint cans and twisted pieces of metal crunched underfoot as I carefully ran the rope over top of the junk and around the side of a huge misshapen refrigerator.
If you've ever stood on Park Avenue, Manhattan, and felt a subway train rumble by underfoot, you know what a typical quake feels like. On The Subject of Retirement Places
Ice made the path slippery underfoot.
And that would be the only sound you hear for a while - no trucks or cars or snowblowers, just the crunch, crunch, crunching of snow underfoot and the occasional giggle of a small child who captures a snowflake on his tongue.
‘His turn of foot has been nullified by the pace of the race and the underfoot conditions,’ the trainer said.
Injuries may have been caused by people panicking and crushing others underfoot in their rush to leave buildings. Growing Through Loss and Grief
The crucial ingredient, the key to successful cocooning, is a cosseted feeling underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
A man is being trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
People were trampled underfoot in the rush for the exit.
He didn't give the mess a second glance, and wandered off, treading crushed peanuts underfoot.
Sometimes, out for a walk, as you break your way through the prickly pear, you notice that it is rather bumpy underfoot, and only a certain regularity in the bumps tells you that you are walking over skeletons. Marrakech
There have been villagers in other parts of Zambia mauled by lions, trampled underfoot by elephants and hippos.
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
The Autralian, still shuddering from the ex - plosion, jerked underfoot, rolled, yawed swiftly. The Heirs of Babylon
There were crisp husks of beechmast and cast acorn cups underfoot in the russet slime of dead bracken where the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approaching winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezed it tight. Archive 2004-12-01
Well, that started with the idea that this place, everything from the solid ground underfoot to the stale flavor of blowing dust, was not actually real.
The race of six miles with 900 feet of climbing took place in very cold weather with wet underfoot conditions.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
By the end my legs were really sore and I was in desperate need of a rest, because the underfoot conditions were really tiring.
The ground was cold underfoot but we were laughing as we fetched rocks from the river, re-erected the tent and weighed down its rim with the rocks.
The advocates of summer rugby will have loved it as the firm ground underfoot encouraged the two teams to play some terrific expansive rugby.
A few stray leaves crunched underfoot as I walked.
Along the way I caught slashes of blue sea and Scarborough Castle, and underfoot, in and amongst the birch and pine trees there are splashes of purple heather.
Anil Biswas then sucks up the big bourgeoisie of the Third world by superciliously trampling underfoot Lenin’s and Mao’s lessons on the so-called signboard of freedom of the backward third world countries at one stroke. A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)
A fat-eyed parrotfish darted quickly underfoot and Peter swayed, one of his leg braces clinking against the back of a chair. DO NO HARM
The beautiful underfoot carpets of blue gentium delight the eye and, above fly buzzards, eagles, skylarks and wheatears.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
She could hear leaves crackling underfoot as she and her father walked through the mountains in autumn.
The carpet of pine needles was soft underfoot.
Ice made the path slippery underfoot.
Many objects had been swept off the shelves or emptied out of boxes, and then trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot. A Model Victory
The snow underfoot wassoft and deep.
There is a sponginess underfoot; a greater upward force to your movements.
Their CVs are torn apart, their grandiose claims are punctured and their numbers are first crunched then ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The rock was mostly poor quality shale and mudstone leaving a smooth soapy floor underfoot and this continued for a few hundred metres without respite.
And, it's probably an old poet's fancy, but I swear as I was walking about in Williton today I could almost feel the pavement squelching underfoot, as if the water has crept up and is laying directly underneath.
As a sample of the religious sentiment of Pindar we give the following fragment of a threnos translated by MR. SYMONDS, which, he says, "sounds like a trumpet blast for immortality, and, trampling underfoot the glories of this world, reveals the gladness of the souls that have attained Elysium: Mosaics of Grecian History
It was easy to make with 3 children underfoot, few items to cook, and still unpacking from a move! Flour tortillas | Homesick Texan
It sounded like the ground was pursing it's lips as diggers shuffled their boots on the broken ground underfoot.
Inside there were more animals underfoot, but no sign of their liberator. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Underfoot was like walking on thicknesses of flannel, and except where we put our feet the place was as printless as a snowfield -- dust, dust, unbroken grey dust. Widdershins
There have been villagers in other parts of Zambia mauled by lions, trampled underfoot by elephants and hippos.
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
The other smells weren't hidden by the omnipresent odor: the sour redolence of corn mash, the fresh tang of the straw underfoot, the distant sweetness of apple blossom coming in through the window. Magnificent Pigs
The taste buds of humans can change significantly over the years and, similarly, the preferences that horses have for underfoot ground conditions can also alter. Times, Sunday Times
The first thing Ben noticed was that the ground underfoot seemed less dusty; he was walking on bare rock.
He stuck one step behind me and was constantly underfoot as I turned to pick something up or put it down.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
There was always some sound to be heard; the chirping of crickets, bird songs, bullfrogs croaking, and the crunching of leaves and pine needles underfoot.
It sounded like the ground was pursing it's lips as diggers shuffled their boots on the broken ground underfoot.
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
a house with children and pets and toys always underfoot
To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Inside the dark, pillared wood, precious little light seeps, there's only the noise of wood and the crunch of pine needles underfoot.
You could see them underfoot, suspended in the flowstone, hundreds, no, thousands of them. Deeper
A man is being trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
To be fair, it was a wicked day on which to play rugby, with a capricious wind and soft conditions underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
Injuries may have been caused by people panicking and crushing others underfoot in their rush to leave buildings. Growing Through Loss and Grief
The earth moved and groaned underfoot, and on all sides the wind shrieked like tormented demons. The Gods of Asgard
Injuries may have been caused by people panicking and crushing others underfoot in their rush to leave buildings. Growing Through Loss and Grief
Favourite pieces - dear friends - are trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
The victims of the crush were pushed against the walls or trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
His bare feet stepped on the thick nap of the plush carpet underfoot.
the crisp snap of dry leaves underfoot
It seemed to creep up on the neighborhood like a old tabby who suddenly appears underfoot, purring and mewing blossoms of quietude after the winter winds.
Clothes were trampled underfoot, first-aid kits had been ripped open and their contents thrown across the lawn. Times, Sunday Times
To see their team go down without a fight, to see the good name of their club trampled underfoot, to see the game laughing at them. The Sun
What appeared to be the ink drum of a broken photostat machine rolled across the floor and glass crunched underfoot as Sizani and his entourage stepped over pieces of overhead projectors.
Instead, they envisioned a wind farm for the summit, where Force Seven gusts beckon with the promise of green jobs forever to replace the estimated 20 years of easily extractible coal underfoot. Thestar.com - Home Page
Favourite pieces - dear friends - are trampled underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
At nine in the morning the rain finally ceased, though the ground was still boggy underfoot. A Model Victory
Wind resistance: I had no complaints even on blustery days with snow underfoot.
He saved a little girl from being trampled underfoot in the rush for the fire exit.
It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. Christianity Today
Woe to anyone who put a quarter in the feed dispenser if there was a goat nearby; they'd make a straight line for the food and it mattered little who was in the way or underfoot.
Competition was keen as the youngsters negotiated the testing courses that easily cut up following heavy overnight rain and made for slippy underfoot conditions.

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