SHOE in a Sentence

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285 example sentences for SHOE, such as:

1. Children's shoes need to be tough.
2. You can't go out without any shoes.
3. I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
4. Lace up your shoes or you'll trip over.
5. The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shoe
 n.  an outer covering for your foot that usually has a stiff bottom
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But her great toe could not go into it, and the shoe was altogether much too small for her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
2  So the silly girl cut off her great toe, and thus squeezed on the shoe, and went to the king's son.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
3  Then she went into the room and got her foot into the shoe, all but the heel, which was too large.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
4  Then he looked down, and saw that the blood streamed so much from the shoe, that her white stockings were quite red.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
5  Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
6  'Do what I bid you,' replied the soldier, and again this third night the princess was obliged to work like a servant, but before she went away, she hid her shoe under the bed.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
7  Next morning the king had the entire town searched for his daughter's shoe.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE BLUE LIGHT
8  He was immediately recognized as one of them; the handkerchief was thrown down, and the iron-heeled shoe replaced on the foot of the wretch to whom it belonged.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 107. The Lions' Den.
9  Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  As Estella dealt the cards, I glanced at the dressing-table again, and saw that the shoe upon it, once white, now yellow, had never been worn.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
13  The last I saw of them was, when I presently heard a scuffle behind me, and looking back, saw Joe throwing an old shoe after me and Biddy throwing another old shoe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
14  Sitting near her, with the white shoe, that had never been worn, in her hand, and her head bent as she looked at it, was an elegant lady whom I had never seen.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
15  Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, and looked at me, and put the shoe down.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
Example Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
16  She bent down to shake a pebble out of her shoe.
17  I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
18  The back of the sole is attached to the shoe by a semi-circle of nails driven from the outside.
19  I always put my left shoe on first; I'm superstitious (about it).
20  She teetered along in her high-heeled shoes.
21  The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.
22  You can't go out without any shoes.
23  It's not too much to ask of you to clean your own shoes.
24  Her crocodile skin clutch bag matched her shoes.
25  Children's shoes need to be tough.
26  I'm going to treat myself to a new pair of shoes.
27  Lace up your shoes or you'll trip over.
28  He reordered two pairs of black leather shoes of the latest type.
29  The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
30  My shoes were so tight that I could hardly walk.