How to Use shoelace in a Sentence

shoelace

noun
  • The black bands loop through the shoelace slots in all types of shoes.
    — Olivia Evans, womenshealthmag.com, 17 May 2023
  • Da’Quincy plays with his shoelaces and picks at his lip.
    — Caroline Anders, Indianapolis Star, 9 Mar. 2020
  • The shoelaces varied in length and were brown or black.
    — Judy Holmes, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Switch all your child's shoelaces with green shoelaces.
    — Amanda Rock, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The success of the surgery depends on the shoelace suture.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • Either a shoelace or a weak skate or a weak blade, the blade was loose.
    — Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The man forced her into the woods, pushed her down on the ground and tied her hands and feet with shoelaces.
    — Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • If Chris breaks a shoelace, somebody has got to go in there at Z.
    — Rick Stroud, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Next lift your left foot on the floor a few feet in front of the bench, place the top of your right foot on the bench, shoelaces down.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t Trip is written in a big white font along a shoelace tag.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2017
  • So was there no follow-up about the crazy shoelace business by the Suns?!
    — Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Pull the two twists into a single knot in the back, like the first step in tying a shoelace.
    — Nina Judar, Redbook, 19 Sep. 2016
  • There's no time for a shoe search, untying the shoelace knot, and putting them on.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • And then there’s that comma, dangling like an untied shoelace off the end of the line.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
  • There, Leon had made a safe out of two coffee cans and a shoelace and hid it inside a pipe.
    — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Sabalenka couldn’t get the half-volley off her shoelaces and over the net.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The sneaker will also come with two sets of shoelaces: a pink with brown tips and a brown with pink tips.
    — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 26 May 2025
  • Even the brand's signature shoelaces are stitched by hand.
    — Ingrid Schmidt, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Caleb found Joshua lying on the floor with a shoelace wrapped tightly around his neck.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The proper way to tie shoelaces is not a topic that comes up with his customers.
    — Monty Davis, kansascity.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Shaved heads and colored shoelaces in their boots completed the look.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Stilla tries to specialize in hard-to-find items, from shoelaces to safes.
    — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 17 June 2019
  • Neither of the guards was hurt, but they were bound with shoelaces, Gonzales said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The piece spells out the opening words to the preamble of the US Constitution in shoelaces.
    — Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2017
  • Footage shows the youngster, who is wearing a red t-shirt, stopping to tie his shoelace next to a parked car.
    — Swns - Joe Smith, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Telomeres serve as protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, similar to the bits of plastic at the ends of shoelaces.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Health, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Cats love interactive play with feather toys, laser pointers or even a pesky shoelace.
    — Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • He was last seen wearing a tan or light brown jacket, tan camouflage pants and black shoes with white shoelaces.
    — Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Thicker drawstrings are usually flat much like flat shoelaces.
    — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Around his neck hangs a shoelace weighed down with no less than two dozen keys.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Nov. 2025

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