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sandal

[san-dl] / ˈsæn dl /


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The firm, which manages around $40 billion of assets, has made more than 300 investments in consumer companies, including sandal maker Birkenstock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The winner of the recent Mexico City edition was a fresh-faced Kaled Rosales Salazar, who mimicked lassoing and leading his opponent, Quintana, like a horse, with a giant white sandal as a prop.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Birkenstock CEO Oliver Reichert highlighted the trend during the German sandal and clog maker’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

You could always opt for the fisherman-style sandal, which looks like something a history teacher might have worn in the 1970s.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

And when she sat in the library', she’d cross her legs and let her sandal dangle in midair as she read and played with her hair.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

The second was a Roman copper alloy lamp in the shape of sandaled foot, discovered by a study group in Kent while exploring what is believed to be a small Roman fort.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

Migrants leave home on sandaled feet with dreams of escaping poverty.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2019

Also in this mud layer, the scientists found preserved footsteps of sandaled adults and barefoot children, as well as signs that the llamas were dragged there.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2019

Phil was Bohemian, the loudest guy in the grillroom, sandaled and Southern Californian.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 27, 2018

“You shouldn’t be playing around in the parking lot anyway,” she said, and pulled her son away, walking faster than his little sandaled feet could quite keep up.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

Sometimes Joseph, in his slapdash style, put in too much, and the bubbles outgrew the fountain, creating ever-widening concentric foam rings that burst their fragile stickiness on someone’s sandalled foot.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

I could see their sandalled feet, the hems of their clothes.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018

You sense from the hands, arms, neck, and one bare shoulder, and the sandalled feet, the whole of a gaunt, sinewy body, which you can all but smell.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 2, 2015

With no wasted episodes, Spartacus never drags its sandalled feet.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013

"I shall not," answered he, stamping his heavy, sandalled foot viciously; "it would be our last chance, and the woman might not be there."

From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Grant Balfour


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