Underfoot the paths gave out a crisp complaint, the sunlight slanting up the valley held no warmth whatever, and their breath hung about their heads like vapor, crystallizing upon the fur of their caps and hoods.
Up overside rose the whisper of rushing waters; from underfoot came the rhythmic beat of the engines far below.
Underfoot and upon the walls roughly cut into the stones, are single initial letters, the brief epitaphs of those who lie below.
The feel of the poison grass underfoot and the erratic flight of a stingwing in the last instant before Grif blasted it.
Underfoot the moisture of the path was beginning, not yet to stiffen, but rather to withdraw itself; and there was a cold clearness in the air.
The floorunderfoot was quite different--more of a metallic quality with a curious corrugation.
As they progressed, the top of the ring steadily became broader; the surface underfoot became rougher.
The ground underfoot and the rocks themselves had been steadily changing.
A sudden change in the feeling of the ground underfoot brought me to myself; I bent down and found I was treading on vegetation--a tiny forest extending for quite a distance in front and to the side of me.
Underfoot the runners of the cutter shrieked loudly.
Underfoot had been an exceedingly irregular plain; overhead an exceedingly bright and trying polished sky; around about an exceedingly monotonous horizon-line and dense clouds of white dust.
But it was a genuine luxury to be on the ground and feel the cushions of leaves-underfoot once more; and so it was, while he strode steadily forward, facing always the east, that John ate his meager breakfast.
The leaves underfoot and all the great forest stretching away for miles on every side were still wet from the drenching rain of the previous night.
The proprietor jumped right over her, stamping upon the cakes and the pieces of broken china and grinding them underfoot into the carpet until it looked like a pavement of broken mosaics.
He figures on it in full armour, wearing a turban on his head, and treading underfoot a fallen foe, while Ishtar of Arbeles leads towards him a long file of naked captives, bound ready for sacrifice.
Pierre, playing out there in the sunshine, had paused to gaze at the gay trappings of the cavalcade rather than run to the safe shelter of his mother's arms, so that one of the horses had struck him down underfoot and injured his spine.
The marble underfoot bore the imprint of many shoes and rubbers and hobnails, of all sizes and--mayhap--of all nations.
The ground underfoot was now slippery, and he remembered that they had passed over a place where the earth seemed spongy.
It was apparently the intention of the bull to shake him loose in this way, and, after the boy dropped back to the ground, to trample him underfoot before he could recover sufficiently to get out of the way.
The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
In the Parliament Close, trodden daily underfoot by advocates, two letters and a date mark the resting-place of the man who made Scotland over again in his own image, the indefatigable, undissuadable John Knox.
Overhead burst the shells, underfoot the dust rose and the twigs snapped as the unending rain of rifle, machine-gun, and shrapnel bullets zipped!
The forest became a painted forest, with an ever-thinning canopy and an ever-thickening carpet of crimson and gold; everywhere there was a low rustling underfoot and a slow rain of colour.
There had been no rain for a long time, and the multitude of leaves underfoot were crisp and dry.
Or a second fire, Like that which lately crackled underfoot And in this very chamber, fuse the glass, And char us back again into the dust We spring from.
The pungent penetrating smell of the herbs we trod underfoot had an uncanniness in it as if all were simples and antidotes--a faint medicinal flavour like the ante-chamber of a physician.
As we descend into the glen the goingunderfoot grows softer, the flinty red clay changes to sand and soon to an irregular kind of turf.
The rain never seemed to penetrate, for the fir-needles underfoot grew more dusty year by year.
The yellow bracken and the fallen leaves underfoot seemed to throw up light of themselves, and here and there a patch of ruddy beech lay like a bloodstain on the hillside.
At the Hamburg Congress, Auer, the socialist deputy, looked into the future and saw "the Cossacks trampling underfoot all the liberties of Western Europe.
He lies quite still, but the cold is cruel, and he is trampled underfoot in the turmoil of a fearful struggle.
The beggars leaped like coyotes on the precious metal, overthrowing and trampling underfoot the weaker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underfoot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abject; below; downtrodden; under; underground
