brogans

Example Sentences

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Potato sacks were restitched as dresses for the girls while ugly brogans that didn’t fit had to suffice as shoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

He scraped the mud off Bibi’s bare legs and feet with a stick and carefully removed all traces from his heavy brogans.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The heavy brogans on the man’s feet made him appear clumsy-footed, but he swung down from the giddy height as lightly and airily as a mountain goat.

From Slate • Nov. 25, 2018

Donoghue’s prose is as sturdy and serviceable as a good pair of brogans, but never nondescript.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2016

I gathered all my throwing stones in my pouch and started putting my brogans on when a man’s voice boomed out from behind me, “Now that was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen!”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis