SLIPPER in a Sentence

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For SLIPPER, below is one of 83 sentences:
Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLIPPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slipper
 n.  low footwear that can be on and off easily; one who slips or slides because of loss of traction
Classic Sentence: (81 in 6 pages)
1  Then both the sisters were overjoyed to hear it; for they had beautiful feet, and had no doubt that they could wear the golden slipper.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
2  The eldest went first into the room where the slipper was, and wanted to try it on, and the mother stood by.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
3  However, the prince would have her come; and she first washed her face and hands, and then went in and curtsied to him, and he reached her the golden slipper.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
4  Then she took her clumsy shoe off her left foot, and put on the golden slipper; and it fitted her as if it had been made for her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In ASHPUTTEL
5  So on the first day when her foot had healed enough to stand a slipper, she mounted the Yankee's horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Her slipper patted longingly in time with old Levi's large splayed foot as he twanged a strident banjo and called the figures of the reel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  I found her propped up on the couch in her bay-window, with her foot in a big slipper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  She threw a slipper at the retreating figure of the girl, who turned, smiled, and went on again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
9  You will find tobacco in the Persian slipper.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
10  Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  She hesitated, unwilling to soil her slippers and hems, and looked about in the shouting tangle of wagons, buggies and carriages for Miss Pittypat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  She was unable to walk more than a block on the tiny feet which she crammed into too small slippers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  She felt the dust and gravel in her slippers hurting her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  She filled her skirt with the best of them and came back across the soft earth, collecting small pebbles in her slippers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  Because of their success, she became a co-founder of R.G. Barry Corporation where she invented the world's first foam-soled, soft washable slipper.
2  I rescued the remains of my slipper from the dog.