HEEL in a Sentence

Learn HEEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

194 example sentences for HEEL, such as:

1. One woe doth tread upon another's heels.
2. He found the pursuer close at his heels.
3. There's a hole in the heel of my stocking.
4. I scuffed the heel of my boot on the step.
5. Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heel
 n.  back part of the human foot; lower end of a ship's mast
Classic Sentence: (175 in 12 pages)
1  And you and Prissy go bring in the sow and her litter, she said briefly, turning on her heel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  She could have ground her heel into the gaping wound which had been his nose and taken sweet pleasure in the feel of his warm blood on her bare feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Her sore foot, forgotten in the excitement, now gave a tremendous throb that made her grit her teeth and shift her weight to the heel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  He turned on his heel before she could speak and went out of the room on swift feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
5  "So are you," said Bonnie generously and, hammering a heel into Mr. Butler's ribs, she galloped down the yard toward the arbor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  She walked the rails, balancing with arms extended, cautious heel before toe.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  But chancing to slip with his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
8  When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
9  But her small boot heel did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
10  So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
11  See, the heel has hardly touched the ground; and there the dark-hair has made a little jump, from root to root.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
12  Without ceremony, and with a rough hand, he twirled the supple Gamut around on his heel, and more than once affirmed that the Hurons had done themselves great credit in the fashion of his costume.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
13  So saying, he turned quickly on his heel, and shut the door after him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  "Papa is much obliged to you for his recommendation," said St. Clare, laughing, as he turned on his heel and walked away.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  Meanwhile, Simon turned on his heel, and marched up to the bar of the boat for a dram.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  For years the nation had been under the heel of a dictatorial regime.
2  There's a hole in the heel of my stocking.
3  Memory is heel, lonesome is dent, I a person coexistence.
4  Using the heel of your hand, press the dough firmly into shape.
5  I scuffed the heel of my boot on the step.
6  The crevice passage twisted into this reef, curved directly to the north heel, and ran along the base of the rock.
7  His opponents could not harm Achilles, who was vulnerable only in his heel.
8  There was a cross in the left boot heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil.
9  Many of common foot complaints, like heel pain, arch pain and ball of foot pain, are caused by faulty foot mechanics.
10  They were bunching up, almost treading upon each other's heels.
11  One woe doth tread upon another's heels.
12  Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
13  I'll put him in a cell to cool his heels for a bit.
14  He found the pursuer close at his heels.
15  Learn to use high heels to fight You are the real queen.