shoe
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Jackson flags this exact relationship in her dissent, as the court’s new ruling Monday “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs.”
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Dick’s acquired Foot Locker last fall when the shoe seller was dealing with excess inventory and declining sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Deckers Outdoor, in May, said its Ugg Zora line — which has the fluffy interior an Ugg boot in roughly the shape of a ballet shoe — was proving appealing to customers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
"Everyone is going faster than they used to be because the shoe technology is so much better," University of Exeter professor Andrew Jones told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
He had a beard and an eye-patch too, And for all I know, he wore one shoe And ate for his lunch a bowl of goo.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
Rupert Grint said there was something "so special about stepping back into Ron's shoes now when we are both fathers"
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods tumbled toward their worst day in three years on Tuesday, as the sporting-goods retailer’s bleak earnings report revealed that people needed deeper discounts to buy athletic shoes and clothes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
But the road wasn’t silent—trekking poles clicking against stone, rain snapping against my poncho, the slide of rocks under my shoes and the chorus of “buen camino.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The mostly middle-aged crowd featured men in boat shoes and women with jewelry at an outdoor space where boats docked near the restaurant.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
I’m nothing like those cheerleader girls that guys like him go for, with their perfect hair and makeup, shoes that match their shirts.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
"O here am I, a bonnie boy, to win hose and shoon, Will gae to Glenlogie, and cum again shun."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
The young birkie had neither hat nor shoon, but he did not spare the stick; round and round they flew like daft.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
"Aye, that I will," said the old woman, "and not the less willingly that you gave me hose and shoon, when I greatly needed them."
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
Then she's ta'en him to her chamber, And down in her arms lay he: The boy coost aff his hose and shoon, And ran to fair Dundee.
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
Brown and Green kept me moving — if not dancing, exactly — shod in my first pair of proper gardening boots, which were, serendipitously, brown and green.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
I had never worn boots before of any kind, and that first day, I walked like a newly shod horse.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Shined shoes, shoed shines," it rang in my head.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
"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
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
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
He began shoeing horses for television and film westerns, and gradually took nonspeaking roles on horseback.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
“I think they got greedy and sloppy. It defies logic to improve every horse you get. You can change shoeing equipment, surface, vitamins, but you can’t improve every horse.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 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
Purses were often smaller than the cost of shoeing a horse—about $1.40.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
