shoelace

Example Sentences

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He glanced back at the floor a second time, at Katherine’s red-striped shoelaces flapping out loose and dangling down beside the leg of the chair.

From Literature

His father’s left boot was dangling by its shoelace from a lower branch.

From Literature

Pulling a shoelace through a narrow hole becomes uneven if the lace tangles, and scientists assumed DNA behaved in the same way.

From Science Daily

Hers were noisy, and they had dangling shoelaces flapping, unlike his mom's softer steps or his dad's firm, big ones.

From Literature

The crows brought him silver buttons and paper clips, and coins which he dug holes in and strung onto a shoelace and wore round his neck.

From Literature