How to Use footloose in a Sentence

footloose

adjective
Definition of footloosenext
Synonyms for footloosenext
  • When she was 20, she was footloose and fancy-free, with no family or serious career to tie her down.
  • And at last, everybody got the chance to cut footloose.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In the 1960s, the tiny radios came to symbolize the footloose freedom of youth.
    — Virginia Postrel, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2013
  • This is not by any means an excuse to hit the beach, footloose and sunscreen-free.
    — Rachel Nall, Msn, SELF, 7 Feb. 2022
  • This year has proven a challenging one for the footloose and fancy free.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2020
  • If your dad, like many others, likes to get footloose with styling his socks, add this pack of a dozen to your cart ASAP.
    — Simona Matovic, oregonlive, 12 June 2019
  • Berry 45—the authorities saw the footloose rocker as a threat to the status quo.
    — Eddie Dean, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Maybe the 2000-yard barrier is within reach for a stress-free and footloose Elliott.
    — Clarence E. Hill J., star-telegram, 9 May 2018
  • Only a Bert would get so mad at the judgmental prodding of some footloose Ernie.
    — John Hodgman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • There was once a time not so long ago when teen television was pretty footloose and fancy free.
    — refinery29.com, 8 June 2018
  • My inalienable right to wander around footloose and fancy-free just got snuffed.
    — Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021
  • But Mr. Panter, 66, is creatively footloose and has never been content to just draw comics and paint.
    — Dana Jennings, New York Times, 21 July 2017
  • Audrey Hepburn gets footloose and fancy free in this Gershwin classic from the 1950s that’s set in the fashion salons of the always chic and stylish city of Paree.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Nov. 2022
  • This is the first time that Kushner may face a consequence for his so-far footloose ascent within his father-in-law’s domain.
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Four years later, the social media–savvy designer is in demand for his classic yet footloose style.
    — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 27 Oct. 2016
  • Four years later, the social media–savvy designer is in demand for his classic yet footloose style.
    — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 27 Oct. 2016
  • Aleppo in those days was a magnet for footloose journalists and adventure tourists.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Based on the novel of the same name, the musical tells the story of an Italian war bride trapped in rural Iowa who falls in love with a footloose photographer while her family is out of town.
    — Kt Hawbaker, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
  • The idea that staying childless and footloose is more satisfying is, on average, wrong.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
  • But beneath that is something unexpected and even richer: anger at herself for having failed to care in time about the squalid carelessness of a tossed-off, footloose life.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is heading into the 2018 season footloose and stress-free.
    — Clarence E. Hill J., star-telegram, 9 May 2018
  • His footloose life changed when his mother was diagnosed with dementia.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And yet here are a couple dozen kids enjoying—truly enjoying—the footloose, kinetic freedom of the moment.
    — Bronwen Dickey, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2018
  • While Gordon was born nearly a generation after the Summer of Love, her peripatetic path would fit right into that footloose era.
    — Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The siren call of the road is instilled in her by her footloose father (Timothy Hutton), who believes in travel as life’s ultimate education.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2020
  • While studying at Juilliard, Williams moonlighted as a jazz pianist in nightclubs, and those two skills — formal and footloose — created an alchemy for film scoring.
    — Tim Greiving, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Gellhorn tired of Hemingway's footloose, bar-hopping lifestyle based in Old Havana hotels.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • And in what reads like an embarrassing instance of wish-fulfillment, Rachel Carson, the Hillary figure, is safely dead, leaving Duncan footloose and free to enjoy the world’s sympathy.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 16 June 2018
  • The Diamondbacks’ lineup has provided little support as well, stranding too many base runners and lacking any hitters as footloose and fret-free as the Dodgers’ tongue-flapping, bat-flipping Yasiel Puig.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2017
  • The world’s most populous democracy has a long history with footloose lawmakers.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022

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