shoe
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Jon: Chinese consumers often call out foreign brands that they feel lazily pander to Chinese tastes—like adding a dragon design and calling it a “Year of the Dragon” shoe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Nike Hybrid RN, a shoe designed with both stability and speed for the running and lifting required in Hyrox training, came out this month, two weeks earlier than other markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
I remember weekends with friends as a teenager, spending whatever cash we had in the fashion chains and shoe shops.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Taraneh, like several defendants in the case, worked in a shoe shop on Shohada Square.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
"In any case, I think it's definitely a clue because the letters are just like the fancy letters on the slipper shoe box."
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
DoorDash is adding clothing, shoes and other items to its app through new partnerships with brands including Timberland, Vans and Macy’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
He also took notice of the items being put on sale — from clothing to shoes, to home goods like bedding.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Plus, shoes have replaced bags as the new entry-level luxury accessory, and nepo-baby accusations are reaching a fever pitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Mathematician and broadcaster, Hannah Fry, who co-hosts The Rest is Science podcast, could fill David Olusoga's intellectual shoes this year.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
We met the girls as they came barreling out of their own door in the same rush to button jackets and stumble into shoes mid-sprint.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whare will I get a bonny boy, That wad fain win hose and shoon, That will rin to fair Annie's bower,55 Wi' the lei light o' the moon?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The young birkie had neither hat nor shoon, but he did not spare the stick; round and round they flew like daft.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
O hastily he gat him up, Staid neither for hose nor shoon, And he's doen him to the stable door Wi' the clear light o' the moon.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
O whan he came to broken briggs, He bent his bow and swam; And whan he came to the green grass growin', He slack'd his shoon and ran.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026
Dsquared2 also presented for autumn-winter 2026-27 an army of holidaymakers shod in provocative footwear.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He crosses one flamboyantly shod foot over another on his desk with churlish satisfaction and takes a deep draw on his cigar.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
“Try finding a suitable space in a Range Rover or Jeep Wagoneer for an 8-inch by 22-inch rim shod with a cross-country tire,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023
Cigarettes dangle from manicured fingers; tiny dogs wait patiently for owners to finish espressos; every female foot is shod in a high-heeled designer shoe.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
Only 18 people shoed up for a debate we hosted, and we had received only seven letters.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
“You got up in the morning, you tended to your horses, you cleaned the hooves out, shoed them and fed them,” Elliott said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
She hates heels, feels like a shoed horse in them.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2012
John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter recognized Vola’s footsteps—the hard wooden stamp followed by the softer shoed footfall—and dropped the logs back into the wood bin.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
Discuss shoeing and hoof care options with a farrier.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
He began shoeing horses for television and film westerns, and gradually took nonspeaking roles on horseback.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2020
“I think they got greedy and sloppy. It defies logic to improve every horse you get. You can change shoeing equipment, surface, vitamins, but you can’t improve every horse.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020
Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Purses were often smaller than the cost of shoeing a horse—about $1.40.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
