Examples of footloose in a Sentence

When she was 20, she was footloose and fancy-free, with no family or serious career to tie her down. after having been chained for so long, the suddenly footloose dog ran helter-skelter about the yard

Recent Examples on the Web The world’s most populous democracy has a long history with footloose lawmakers. — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022 This is not by any means an excuse to hit the beach, footloose and sunscreen-free. — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 7 Feb. 2022 Of course, as future of work expert, Steve Cadigan highlights in Workquake, this bargaining relationship is complicated by the increasingly footloose nature of the modern worker. — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021 My inalienable right to wander around footloose and fancy-free just got snuffed. — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021 Back in 1893 Luigi Cecchi founded his Tuscan winery in the hills of the Chianti Classico region, which back then had a rather footloose approach to what a Chianti should be. — John Mariani, Forbes, 25 June 2021 The idea that staying childless and footloose is more satisfying is, on average, wrong. — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021 Although the Conzone family’s footloose new lifestyle may not be for everyone, their reluctance to settle down or to commit to a long-term lease is embedded in the current rental-market zeitgeist. — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 2 June 2021 The era depicted by these writers is febrile and dreadful, bourgeois and revolutionary, fast-moving and footloose, a snapshot of modernity derailed. — Toby Lichtig, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021 See More

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