heel
Example Sentences
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“Ahem,” the salty woman says again, nudging one of my backpack straps with the pointed toe of her red patent high heel.
From Literature
He beams a satisfied smile and bounces back on his heels.
From Literature
Clare kept at the badger’s heels, but when he spotted the acorn garland draped over the trees and smelled the sweet scent of cherry berries, he bounded ahead.
From Literature
“They literally fell head over heels flat into an ongoing operation that we had,” said Robert Zachariasiewicz, the supervising DEA agent who is now at corporate intelligence firm Elicius.
Without competition nipping at its heels, Bell Labs engineers had the luxury of working out difficult ideas over decades.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
