SANDAL in a Sentence

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He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.

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 Meanings and Examples of SANDAL
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sandal
 n.  a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot
Classic Sentence:
1  There was a large fire burning on the hearth, and one could smell from far the fragrant reek of burning cedar and sandal wood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
2  He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulder, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
3  He bound his sandals on to his comely feet, girded his sword about his shoulders, and left his room looking like an immortal god.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
4  Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
5  But Telemachus bound on his sandals, and took a long and doughty spear with a head of sharpened bronze from the deck of the ship.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XV
6  Thus did he urge the swineherd; Eumaeus, therefore, took his sandals, bound them to his feet, and started for the town.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVI
7  When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, Telemachus bound on his sandals and took a strong spear that suited his hands, for he wanted to go into the city.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
8  Or the resolute refusal of some pimpled dirty little scrub in sandals to sell his soul.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
11  He had, moreover, sandals bound on his feet by cords.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata.
12  The garden walks were damp, and Edna called to the maid to bring out her rubber sandals.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Her wardrobe consists primarily of huge cashmere sweaters and tiny Italian sandals.