stiletto

In a bejeweled white pantsuit and towering stiletto pumps, Megyn Kelly tried to work the crowd like a rock star.

From Slate ● May 6, 2026

You become well-acquainted with her stiletto Louboutins and her silent, hunky blond bodyguard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

The teaser for the film gives nothing away - the famous red stiletto heel from the first film's promotional poster is appropriately joined by a second, identical shoe.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

Yet unlike the doll of last year’s blockbuster movie, the next pop-culture star who’s about to re-emerge isn’t a statuesque blonde in stiletto heels.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2024

On one hip he wore a stiletto, on the other a Dothraki arakh.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Instead of the stilettoes of the 1990s, most looks were paired with platform loafers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

And, in this summer’s blockbuster movie, “Barbie,” Birkenstocks are the down-to-earth alternative that Barbie is forced to accept over her jeweled stilettoes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

Its strappy stilettoes are worn by celebrity fans including Beyoncé and the Duchess of Cambridge, and were made famous by the fictional Carrie Bradshaw character in the television series Sex and the City.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2017

Some of it smudges unlucky stilettoes, but most is dutifully tossed into rubbish bins and hauled to landfills, at a cost of over $100 per ton.

From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015

Rods, beams, planes, and stilettoes of unbearable energy the doomed fleet launched, in addition to its main beam of annihilation, and Roger also hurled out into space every weapon at his command.

From Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Unlike her famous wigs, rhinestones and stilettos, it wasn’t something she could, or would, remove.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Hathaway paired the top with low-rise La Ligne jeans and red Aquazzura stilettos.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Waves crash along the Palm Beach shoreline and a drone shot swoops over the grounds of Mar-a-Lago before landing at a pair of stilettos donned by Melania Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

It turns out Minty is interested in following in Mellon’s stilettoed footsteps — although she has slightly different aspirations from her mother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2019

Slim, stilettoed fashionistas and comfort-clad suburbanites gathered around the lounge’s enclosed firepits.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

Instead of earnest eulogies or prayers for consolation, her drag sisters honored Sahara’s memory by striving to match her classically trained dance skills, cartwheel for cartwheel and kick for stilettoed high kick.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2016

Having been stilettoed by a fellow poet, Le Tissier could be forgiven for wanting Hoddle to come back as in his next life.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2014

To properly scale Machu Picchu, Simmons, who is known to always be properly stilettoed, “left fashion behind,” opting for her Adidas Stan Smith sneakers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2013