Example sentences for: heels

How can you use “heels” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More than this, he used the earlier romanticism of the verse as a wainscot against which he might scuff his heels: "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone," he wrote in "September 1913."

  • Beauty-contest time travel: like the Jesse Owens story but in heels and with virgins.

  • A piece describes the moronic things tourists do in national parks: hike the Grand Canyon in high heels, run at midday in Death Valley, dip their hands in 200 F geothermic pools.

  • We are now perversely disposed to do the same thing with clumpy boots that box feet in or puffy shoes that muffle them up with blobs or colorful wadding, to which delicious concoctions have been added--the weighty clogs with dainty straps, the lofty heels with splayed bottoms.

  • "In a land where movement is virtue, where the echo of heels clicking rapidly on pavement is inordinately blest, it is a grand, defiant, and edifying gesture to lie down for six months."


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