Examples of underfoot

• In military images, the ruler was usually shown alone or with a captive cowering underfoot.

• The underfoot conditions were a straw-bedded standing/lying area with concrete flooring providing access to the feeding barrier and trough.

• The ground can be felt to vibrate subtly underfoot.

• I can touch the rock, whether of a cave wall or of the ground underfoot, and can thereby gain a feel for what rock is like as a material.

• Nevertheless, we can be left with the impression that before the nineteenth century ethnic boundaries were so trampled underfoot that they were barely recognizable to the people rushing across them.

• Howells found the scathing reviews of surly critics to be quite as absurd and ill-motivated as "the botanist's grinding a plant underfoot because he does not find it pretty" (30).

• People do not spend money on luxuries to tread underfoot.

• He is himself engaged in destroying everything that the revolution stood for and trampling underfoot its undoubted successes.