shoe string (Meaning)

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shoe string (n)

a small amount of money

a lace used for fastening shoes

shoe string Sentence Examples

  1. The hiker tightened his shoelaces like a shoe string.
  2. The budget was so tight that we had to cut expenses down to a shoe string.
  3. The necklace was strung on a delicate shoe string.
  4. The balloon floated gracefully in the sky, held by a single shoe string.
  5. The wind howled through the forest, snapping shoe strings like thread.
  6. The thief used a shoe string to pick the lock.
  7. The students lined up single file, holding onto each other's shoe strings.
  8. The shoe string was so thin that it was barely visible.
  9. The seamstress used a shoe string as a measuring tape.
  10. The cat's paw was wrapped in a shoe string to protect it from infection.

FAQs About the word shoe string

a small amount of money, a lace used for fastening shoes

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The hiker tightened his shoelaces like a shoe string.

The budget was so tight that we had to cut expenses down to a shoe string.

The necklace was strung on a delicate shoe string.

The balloon floated gracefully in the sky, held by a single shoe string.