shoe
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But regardless of SpaceX’s viability as a mobile competitor, wireless investors may still worry about when the next shoe will drop with a notoriously volatile company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
The spikes, designed to maximise his biomechanics, featured a carbon plate and aggressive rocker for propulsion, and titanium pins to keep the shoe light.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Bankers managing IPOs have up to 30 days to support the shares of a newly public company through a so-called green shoe option.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
We went shoe shopping at the South Coast Plaza over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Brigit lobbed another shoe in his direction, and he cartwheeled out of the way, the little jingles on his hat tinkling.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The nook can be a good space to throw bags, shoes and even dog bowls, she noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
He said tennis shoes and apparel were also either sold out or in short supply, and some stores had jacked up racket prices.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
He said the man also wore a black bomber-style jacket, black pants with red stripes and shiny black shoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
It is still a fraction of Nike’s size, and running shoes are very much in vogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He decided that if he were in Glory’s shoes, he’d want to hear the truth.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
He was a thorn in the flesh to everybody he came across; he was like grit in the porridge, like a fly in the eye, like a stone in the shoon.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by Rouse, W.H.D.
At last, however, I hung my sword, dusted the hair-powder from frill and ruffle, buckled shoon and knees, and shook out the long soft lace over my cuffs.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
"But where will I get a pretty little boy, That will win hose and shoon; That will go quickly to Strawberry Castle, And bid my lord come doun?"
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
"O here am I, a pretty little boy, That will win hose and shoon; That will rin quickly to Strawberry Castle, And bid thy lord come doun."
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 made Liberace’s rhinestone-encrusted footwear and shod Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck for touring productions of Disney on Parade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
But when he faces down a more traditionally shod and tailored adversary, Boy Kavalier unleashes his dogs as negotiating weapons.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
“Get used to it, friend. You’re a shod tiger now, and you must wear them till you learn good manners. Till you can be trusted.”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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
Peter recognized Vola’s footsteps—the hard wooden stamp followed by the softer shoed footfall—and dropped the logs back into the wood bin.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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 Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry
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 Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright
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
By the mid-1960s, he was working as a farrier shoeing horses for TV westerns, and he eventually was recruited for stunts.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2020
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
Purses were often smaller than the cost of shoeing a horse—about $1.40.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
