stiletto
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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
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
It can be an actual stiletto heel or a wedge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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
He could have kicked himself in the shins with the stiletto toes of his flamenco boots.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
Others bore dags, daggers, poniards, bayonets, square-bladed tucks, stilettoes, poniardoes, skeans, penknives, puncheons, bodkins, swords, rapiers, back-swords, cutlasses, scimitars, hangers, falchions, glaives, raillons, whittles, and whinyards.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Hathaway paired the top with low-rise La Ligne jeans and red Aquazzura stilettos.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
After leaving an interview with Andy Cohen at SiriusXM’s studio, she slides back into her seat and removes her sky-high Louboutin stilettos, taking stock of her aching feet: “That’s going to suck later.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
"Watch out for the holes!" one guest warned another about the hazard for stilettos.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
“Once Upon a Mattress” star Foster, 49, wore an olive dress, a light brown trench coat, dark stilettos and a handbag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
A pair of sparkly silver stilettos gives her about five more inches of height.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
Before the showcase, Kardashian West has been taking the pieces out for a stilettoed test drive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 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
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