stilettos

Example Sentences

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"Watch out for the holes!" one guest warned another about the hazard for stilettos.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

And since the audience, which is admitted in groups of 60 at 15-minute intervals, will largely be standing or walking on varied surfaces during the two-hour running time, stilettos are forbidden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

"Fifteen years ago, Towie was about breakups, glam, white stilettos, Sugar Hut," she says.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people’s idea of fun.

From Salon • May 8, 2024

On the flagstone paving beneath both lanterns there were old plantation pots in which Spanish daggers grew and extended their sharply pointed stilettos.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole