slipper

Example Sentences

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The coachman produced a pink box with a glass slipper inside, telling them: "I've come to find a princess."

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

But will he leave a glass slipper behind?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

For all its muddy cultural avenues left unexplored, though, it at least provides a slipper view of the ways the show represented “the inception of American shock culture,” as one producer accurately describes it.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025

Spiny and slipper lobsters, particularly targeted to supply more tourist-intensive islands, were also considered depleted.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2024

On their wedding night a scorpion that had got into her slipper bit Rebeca on the foot.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez