SHOES in a Sentence

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For SHOES, below is one of 285 sentences:
Perhaps it's still true, provided the Confederate soldier has bullets for his gun and shoes on his feet and food in his stomach.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHOES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shoe
 n.  an outer covering for your foot that usually has a stiff bottom
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  When our shoes wear out, there are no more shoes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  I know you haven't got shoes for your feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
16  She put the bite on me so that she could buy a pair of new shoes.
17  There was a collection of books and shoes on the floor.
18  It's an economy to buy good shoes; they cost more, but they last much longer than cheap ones.
19  These shoes are tan, not dark brown.
20  I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes.
21  It'll be hard to find someone to fill Pete's shoes.
22  Toys, books, shoes and clothes were jumbled on the floor.
23  A girl because she had no shoes to cry, until she saw a man who had no feet.
24  New shoes always give me blisters.
25  The green of your scarf tones in with your shoes.
26  Guy ironed his shirt and shined his shoes for the interview.
27  He was fully dressed, including shoes.
28  Mrs Blower was the rather stout lady with the glasses and the sensible shoes.
29  The mud clung to my shoes.
30  These shoes need to be repaired.