heel up
Example Sentences
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“It’s just a little, half-circle thing that lifts your heel up just a bit.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2022
"I picked the heel up and I threw it," she said.
From Fox News • Mar. 27, 2019
A boy, perhaps in his late teens, is sitting on an upturned crate in front of it, with a shoe, heel up, in his lap.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
As the cord stretches, it stores energy which, a moment later, is released to tug the heel up, helping that foot push off the ground.
From Economist • Dec. 16, 2015
He was now poised accurately on one foot, rubbing his calloused heel up and down his shin, while he drank in the particulars of the telegraph office.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max
