shoe
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A number of civil lawsuits have been filed against shoe manufacturers by track stars, including an Olympian, who allege, among other things, that wearing high-stack shoes with carbon plates caused injuries that derailed their careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Whether you’re a runner, walker or maybe someone whose job requires you to be on your feet all day, the best shoe is the shoe that fits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Brooks, the running shoe company, has ended its sponsorship deal with her and her finish time has been disqualified by the marathon organisers.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
He would tell stories about being a shoe shiner, at times of celebrities and movie stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"A shoe size? Isn’t thirty-five kind of big for a shoe size? Maybe it's a shoe size for giants!"
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
Track stars have filed civil lawsuits against shoe manufacturers, including Nike and Puma, alleging that high-stack shoes with carbon plates caused career-derailing injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“The pendulum has swung from the barefoot shoes to now having a marshmallow under your foot,” says Dennis, the Houston podiatrist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Doctors and specialists are raising concerns that max-cushion running shoes could cause long-term harm to feet, ankles, knees and hips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
While max-cushion shoes may feel great initially, repetition of these minute wobbly, twisting moments plus the extra mechanical load on muscles, tendons, joints and bones could lead to injury in the long term, critics say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
By then a raw wind rattled the empty corn shocks, and we were wearing shoes to school.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And how am I to get these iron shoon?" cried the Princess eagerly.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
Hygienic pilgrim that she is, she came equipped not with cockle shells and sandal shoon, but with sleeping bags, coffee, and cereals.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
O whan he came to broken briggs, He bent his bow and swam; And whan he came to the green grass growin', He slack'd his shoon and ran.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
It's hosen and shoon and gown alone, She climb'd the wall, and follow'd him, Until she came to the green forest, And there she lost the sight o' him.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026
Dsquared2 also presented for autumn-winter 2026-27 an army of holidaymakers shod in provocative footwear.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He crosses one flamboyantly shod foot over another on his desk with churlish satisfaction and takes a deep draw on his cigar.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
“Try finding a suitable space in a Range Rover or Jeep Wagoneer for an 8-inch by 22-inch rim shod with a cross-country tire,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
From this tunnel, I was extremely startled to see protruding a pair of adult male feet, shod in some oddly familiar brown-and-white spectator shoes.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Only 18 people shoed up for a debate we hosted, and we had received only seven letters.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
“You got up in the morning, you tended to your horses, you cleaned the hooves out, shoed them and fed them,” Elliott said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
She hates heels, feels like a shoed horse in them.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2012
"One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door."
From Time Magazine Archive
He flailed his hands and even stamped once with his long, narrow, elegantly shoed foot on the plush carpet.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
After leaving school at 16 with no qualifications, Paul started working for his father but saw little future in shoeing horses and earning "the equivalent of 75p per horse and the chance to be kicked".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
In a memoir, Mr. Hébras recalled the sounds of his town as it had been in his youth — “the church bells and the anvil of the blacksmith shoeing cows and hobnailing our clogs.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2023
He began shoeing horses for television and film westerns, and gradually took nonspeaking roles on horseback.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Exception 2.—Words ending in oe retain the e to preserve the sound of the root: as, shoe + ing = shoeing; hoe + ing = hoeing.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
