SHOES in a Sentence

Learn SHOES 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 SHOES, such as:
1. Better wear out shoes than sheets.
2. Children's shoes need to be tough.
3. You can't go out without any shoes.
4. Lace up your shoes or you'll trip over.
5. The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SHOES
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  Poor Pittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and would be the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  She was willing, even proud to go without hairpins and buttons and nice shoes and candy and tea for the sake of the Cause, but she wanted a satin wedding dress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  When our shoes wear out, there are no more shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  In other days, Scarlett would have been bitter about her shabby dresses and patched shoes but now she did not care, for the one person who mattered was not there to see her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Perhaps it's still true, provided the Confederate soldier has bullets for his gun and shoes on his feet and food in his stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  He did not speak and Dr. Meade thundered, losing his temper: "Our men have fought without shoes before and without food and won victories."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  She did not care for the eager competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget their twice-turned frocks and patched shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  Aunt Pitty completely forgot that the sight of blood always made her faint and she worked until her little feet in their too small shoes swelled and would no longer support her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  Uncle Henry wiped his wet feet on the rag rug and groaned as he drew on his tattered shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Poor Pork, trained for forty years to clean his shoes before entering the house, did not forget, even in a time like this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  But reluctantly she replaced her shoes and stockings and trudged down the bank, spongy with moss, under the shady trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  The folks are starving and the railroads are torn up and there aren't any new rifles and the ammunition is giving out and there's no leather at all for shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  I know you haven't got shoes for your feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  Scarlett gathered that no sacrifice, even though it be muddy shoes, was too great to show loyalty to the Confederacy in so far as Miss Pittypat was concerned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Mammy hurried Scarlett up the dark stairs, muttering fussy remarks about cold hands and thin shoes and Scarlett looked meek and was well content.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
1  She teetered along in her high-heeled shoes.
2  The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.
3  You can't go out without any shoes.
4  It's not too much to ask of you to clean your own shoes.
5  Her crocodile skin clutch bag matched her shoes.
6  Children's shoes need to be tough.
7  I'm going to treat myself to a new pair of shoes.
8  Lace up your shoes or you'll trip over.
9  He reordered two pairs of black leather shoes of the latest type.
10  The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
11  My shoes were so tight that I could hardly walk.
12  Better wear out shoes than sheets.
13  God gave you them shoes to fit you, so put them on and wear them.
14  The factory churns out thousands of pairs of these shoes every week.
15  Those black shoes clash with that white skirt.