SHOE in a Sentence

Learn SHOE 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.
285 example sentences for SHOE, such as:
1. If the shoe fits, wear it.
2. She took off her left shoe.
3. Put the shoe on the right foot.
4. Every shoe fits not every foot.
5. I've got a hole in the sole of my shoe.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SHOE
shoe
 n.  (card games) a case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time
 n.  a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
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)
1  A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
2  The shoe store is across from the bank.
3  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 man was lost.
4  If the shoe fits, wear it.
5  None but the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
6  The mark of a man's shoe was clearly printed in the mud.
7  The coach said he wasn't worried about any position except quarterback; that was where the shoe pinches.
8  The design company is planning to join up with a shoe manufacturer and create a new range of footwear.
9  Every shoe fits not every foot.
10  Put the shoe on the right foot.
11  I've got a hole in the sole of my shoe.
12  He seemed to winkle something out from inside his shoe.
13  She took off her left shoe.
14  I've got some grit / a piece of grit in my shoe.
15  The shoe manufacturer had several outlets.