shoestring
Example Sentences
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But this time, the money wasn’t there for Operation Shoestring — or Mississippi’s poorest families.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022
“It had been reallocated in ways we’re reading about now,” Robert Langford, executive director of Operation Shoestring, which has been providing aid to families in need for more than a half-century, said in an interview.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2022
After fires, illness and neighbor squabbles, the book ends with the youngest Slater boy, Shoestring, wanting “to git book-larnin’.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2021
On TV, he appeared in the late '70s series Shoestring and Citizen James.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2015
She had used one the previous summer to measure the movement of the Shoestring Glacier; she was sure it would help now.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
