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.
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.
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.
6That means this little shoe string in the photo is either a half rope, a twin rope, or both (many ropes carry both certifications).
7Shoe strings are more in my line, you know.
8Other names fastened to the different players were Whale Bone, Shoe String, Tommyhawk and Wolf.
9Father was very busy trying to run a Shoe String up to a National Bank.
10Bless my shoe strings, Tom, but I'm with you!
11Roger glanced at the shoe strings and pondered.
12She used to make tea out of the Devil's Shoe String that grew along on the ground.
13At this the Fool gave a bound, and then began tugging with both hands at his shoe strings.
14A boy of five who makes his mother tie his shoe strings ought not to have anything at all.
15"And put in new shoe strings," he added, with a whimsical smile.
16The emperor issued manifestoes of a whimsical character, one of which was directed against round hats, and another against shoe strings.
Translations for shoe string