heel
Example Sentences
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“For all the success we had this year, we are still nipping at the heels of giants who earned their positions over the last 50 years,” said Hogan.
She’s wearing tight jeans, heels and a baggy Harvard hoodie and twirls the sweatshirt’s drawstrings in her fingers as she speaks.
From Los Angeles Times
Coming as it did on the heels of the Covid-19 pandemic, the soaring prices and supply chain delays felt like a body blow.
From Salon
Despite no rehearsal time, the light operator said: "It was loads of fun and my feet hurt from the heels. But it is all worth it for our Hazlitt audience."
From BBC
While it’s Ephron’s characteristically strong dialogue and flair for realism that so many viewers fall head over heels for, Reiner’s blissfully simplistic direction is what captures the spark of two people slowly falling in love.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
