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Example sentences for "shoe"

Lexicographically close words:
shocking; shockingly; shocks; shod; shoddy; shoeblack; shoed; shoeing; shoeless; shoemaker
  1. Well, let’s get on,” said Dan, tying the last shoe lace.

  2. Miss Josephine Burgess was as purty a gal as ever trod shoe leather; but she was awfully stuck up, and got into all kind of finefied notions, arter her par, the old shoemaker, died and left her his arnings.

  3. A feller that will let money, or a stuck up name, or the handsomest gal that ever trod shoe leather set him agin his own father and mother, desarves tu be kicked tu death by grasshoppers.

  4. He tried to kick, but the shoe became more firmly embedded.

  5. By a miracle of determination, as it seemed, he freed his right shoe and made slow and wary strides forward.

  6. It was just below the porch that he had tied his straps, and when he first moved forward he trod with one shoe on the top of the other.

  7. It fell pointing straight down the hill, and the search party took that direction; all but Rob, who stood motionless, with the shoe in his hand.

  8. He took the shoe from the saw-miller who had once been independent, and they went down the hill together.

  9. Rob took it in his hand, a muddy, draggled shoe that had been a pretty thing when he put it on her foot that morning.

  10. Mighty men, with lofty helmets, Men who shoe with steel their horses.

  11. Sliding his stout, shiny shoe back and forth with the stiff attempt at elegance so deprecated by Mr. Eliot, he asked himself whether the Lord could really countenance such frivolity.

  12. Ishmael stood staring, stung to excitement by that suddenly-glimpsed beauty; but Phoebe darted forward, and the next moment had withdrawn a foot whose stout country shoe and white stocking were dripping greenly.

  13. Her father died and in the two years that her mother tried to manage the shoe store she lost all that they had saved.

  14. Would the sweetness of the hand that darned the socks make his over-filled shoe comfortable?

  15. Every noise in it sounded twice as loud as before, and every muddy shoe made a print.

  16. Thus far the scouts had seen no human footprint; but on the twentieth of February they found a lately abandoned wigwam, and, following the snow-shoe tracks that led from it, at length saw smoke rising at a distance out of the gray forest.

  17. After a snow-shoe journey of extreme hardship they reached their destination, and were received with courtesy by Vaudreuil.

  18. Between the mattresses of the bed you will find two books, and in the shoe box on the floor there is a revolver.

  19. Early this morning, putting on my furs and carrying a small shoe box under my arm, I ran over to the Mission.

  20. Then casting about for material to make this simple engine, I bethought me of my shoe that was furnished with a tongue, very proper for my purpose.

  21. The Guzzuh, she cast her off hind shoe the other day.

  22. He had learned to shoe his string of ponies--an art that is fast becoming lost among present-day cowmen.

  23. Mr. Madden, the treasurer of a large shoe company, when they met on the marble tiles of the hall in their Boston club.

  24. With the advent of longer dresses that reached to her shoe tops a change had come over her.

  25. Finally he was aroused by what seemed a summons from the unknown--the prolonged morning whistle of the shoe factory.

  26. He travels for a Boston shoe house, Humphrey and Gillmount.

  27. When the shoe occupies the same shape as a dozen rubber-neck clams serve with vanilla wafers and horseradish.

  28. Carefully remove the laces from one shoe and put them away, because they can be used for shoe-string potatoes just as soon as the Potato Trust gets started.

  29. Father at once turned about fifteen volts into his right shoe and I rose for a distance of four feet.

  30. Beat the shoe with a hammer for ten minutes until its tongue stops wagging and it gets black and blue in the face.

  31. The ability of a woman to wear a tight shoe and a loose smile at the same time.

  32. Down went all of Charley's wearing apparel excepting his big straw hat and one shoe which Alfred clutched unconsciously in one hand.

  33. Charley had one shoe and a large straw hat.

  34. No stiff leather procurable, they used cardboard and blackened it with shoe polish.

  35. Davy could shoe horses, weld tires or axles as no other blacksmith in those parts.

  36. His daddy keeps a shoe store an' thet's where he gits bouncin' shoes from.

  37. Footnote 129: "The Horse-shoe Cataract on the British side is the largest of the Falls.

  38. And The military shoe with hobnails in it, which Juvenal takes notice of.

  39. On the way, she encountered a great wholesale shoe company, through the broad plate windows of which she saw an enclosed executive department, hidden by frosted glass.

  40. At the shoe factory she put in a long day, scarcely so wearisome as the preceding, but considerably less novel.

  41. So subdued was she by her weakening nerves, that she ate quite in silence going over imaginary conceptions of the character of the shoe company, the nature of the work, her employer's attitude.

  42. Have you ever been employed in a shoe factory before?

  43. From Partridge's they went to a shoe store, where Carrie was fitted for shoes.

  44. She put out her foot and looked at her shoe reflectively.

  45. It was with weak knees and a slight catch in her breathing that she came up to the great shoe company at Adams and Fifth Avenue and entered the elevator.

  46. She was one of those who worked at the machines in the shoe factory.

  47. He thought that we all were afraid of him, and that Oare parish was but as Moab or Edom, for him to cast his shoe over.

  48. And so, in a very evil hour, she accepted the service of the noble Englishman, and sent her father an old shoe filled to the tongue with money, and trusted herself to fortune.

  49. The way to do it is easy," said the little pickpocket, "in the sole of every good shoe is a steel spring.

  50. And one night, in the forecastle, someone hurled a shoe at him.

  51. And now he 's passed the bolted door Where the rusted horse-shoe clings; So carry the nets to the nearest shore, And take what the Shad Spirit brings.

  52. They visited every place where a woman was to be found, and left not a house in the kingdom they did not search, to know could they find the woman the shoe would fit, not caring whether she was rich or poor, of high or low degree.

  53. The prince of Omanya looked at her and said: "You are the woman the shoe fits, and you are the woman I took the shoe from.

  54. When Trembling came out, the shoe was given to her, and it fitted exactly.

  55. When the company came to the house, the prince of Omanya gave the shoe to the sisters.

  56. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost.

  57. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

  58. What was the wooden shoe that sailed the skies?

  59. The old woman might be living still in her shoe and whipping her children soundly, in a twentieth-century wrapper, or clothed in skins she might send them supperless to bed in pre-historic ages.

  60. What then was all this story about fishing from a wooden shoe for herring fish with nets of silver and gold?


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.