A lace used for fastening shoes.
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Examples for "shoestring"
Examples for "shoestring"
1Production values are bargain basement, thanks no doubt to a shoestring budget.
2Whoever managed this was clearly working on a shoestring, with limited resources.
3He sat down in the door and began to loosen a shoestring.
4But, unlike in Continental countries, our atlas is produced on a shoestring.
5But, of course, not all Uighurs in Shanghai live on a shoestring.
1You ought to have thought about that this morning when your shoelace snapped.
2Then he made as if to tie his shoelace, which had come undone.
3Sebastian distracting his attention by bending, grunting, and tying his shoelace.
4His shoelace was untied, but he didn't stop to fix it.
5Nowadays, sadly, it has to be an armpit, an eyebrow or a shoelace.
1An' he's fit 'em with jest a shoe string o' an army.
2See-this cross is but two bits of straw, bound together by a shoe string!
3My shoe string lead line hung out from the wall, tied at the anchor 150 feet above.
4Some "worthy party workers" start a manufacturing plant up in Lake County on a shoe string.
5Encircling his neck with an arm and compressing it to a sudden strand of shoe string, mouth open, tongue out, eyes popping.
1Montgomery clasped his face, sat him down, and began tying his shoe lace.
2Somebody is out of luck-oneglove is about as useless as one shoe lace.
3N-not n-now, he stammered, and began to untie and retie his shoe lace very carefully.
4I hurriedly double-knotted the shoe lace, grabbed up the flashlight, and climbed to my feet.
5I fell down and hurt both legs and my right ankle, and broke my shoe lace.
6He walked on briskly for eight miles, heedless of everything around, then he stopped a moment to tie his shoe lace.
7That is scarcely the kind of shoe laces that a lady adopts.
8He gnawed with his fingernails at the knot of his shoe laces.
9Bless my shoe laces if this cantankerous contraption isn't going wrong again!
10Aunt Mary bought either shoe laces or stove polish from him.
11That left the bank and the shoe laces to attain.
12The buttons were on her slippers: her shoes laced.
13But, bless my shoe laces, it's almost as bad!
14Unfortunately Keith discovered at that crucial moment that one of his shoe laces had become untied.
15Why did there have to be shoe laces?
16The bank was a certainty, but in due time I actually became worried about brown shoe laces.
Translations for shoe lace