shoemaker

Example Sentences

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The weak controls aren’t a good look, evoking the old proverb about the shoemaker whose children go barefoot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Francis came into the collection a few years after the 2008 death of Pasquale Di Fabrizio, an Italian cobbler known in Los Angeles as the "shoemaker to the stars."

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

UK call-centre firm Ventrica, which works with brands such as shoemaker Clarks, fashion chain New Look and McDonald's, opened an operation in South Africa in 2022.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

For the last three years, Francis has been surrounded by a sprawling archive of famous feet originally amassed by Pasquale Di Fabrizio, the late shoemaker to the stars.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

“Where is your life vest?” yelled the shoemaker to me as he clutched the wandering boy.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys