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How to use heel in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Heel means the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg. Example: “He drove the heel of his hand into the man's nose.”

Examples of heel by meaning

nounThe part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.

  • He drove the heel of his hand into the man's nose.

nounA high-heeled shoe.

  • She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle.2008, Kwame Shauku, Wonderful Williams and the Magnificent Seven, page 257
  • Opting to improve her odds of making it up the stairs and into the privacy of her room, she kicked off her left heel, and then her right before leaning down to scoop them up.2011, Candace Irvine, A Dangerous Engagement
  • As she pushed off her left heel and pressed the sole of her foot to the cold floor she looked forward to them.2015, Alex Blackmore, Killing Eva

nounThe last or lowest part of anything.

  • the heel of a mast
  • the heel of a vessel

nounA crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

  • Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia...
  • `Have ye seen,' said Uncle Jobson with basilisk severity, `what's become of the heel of to-day's loaf?'1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 42

nounThe base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.

  • The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.1996, Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan Into the Fryer, page 100

nounA contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate, or thoughtless person.

  • I was the heel to end all heels.1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 29, in The Long Goodbye
  • So why did Godshawk's memories, grumbling again in that substrate of her brain, keep reminding her of heels he'd known, and tricksters?2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, pages 361–362
  • Douglas steams and stammers, a typical film noir heel, while Stone delivers her dialogue with the devilish gleam of a sly actor having a great time.2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verbTo follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.

  • She called to her dog to heel.

verbTo kick with the heel.

  • she heeled her horse forward

More sentences with heel

  • After resting on his elbows, he stood on his toes, then walked on his heels.From the entry on
  • A good all-round golfer, playing out of bunkers is my Achilles heel.From the entry Achilles heel
  • She liked to walk in her flats more than in her high heels.From the entry flat
  • I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.From the entry sensible
  • Hearing the noise in the dark, the children ran head over heels back home.From the entry head over heels
  • She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.From the entry cut out
  • The most common foot-related injury I see for the weekend warrior is heel pain.From the entry weekend warrior
  • The dissident members of the party finally came to heel after the president's speech.From the entry to heel
  • On the classical guitar, the heel supports the neck joint on the back side.From the entry neck joint
  • I caught my heel on the threshold.From the entry catch
  • She tripped and rolled head over heels down the hill.From the entry head over heels
  • He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.From the entry snort
  • She left the restaurant with him hot on her heels.From the entry hot on someone's heels
  • She wore a short skirt and heels.From the entry heels
  • Both players got to cool their heels for five minutes in their respective penalty boxes after the fight.From the entry penalty box
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Achilles' heel.From the entry Achilles' heel
  • If a swimmer kicks up his heels and splashes the water, the judge will take points off accordingly.From the entry kick up one's heels
  • The restless boy kicked his heels against the chair legs.From the entry kick one's heels
  • The dancer kicked her heels as high as her shoulders.From the entry kick one's heels
  • The relation between the terms ‘foot’ and ‘heel’ is that of holonymy, since one of the parts of a foot is a heel.From the entry holonymy
  • Fido! Come back here! To heel!From the entry to heel
  • I leashed him up and had him heel as I bird-watched with my binoculars.2024, James Card, The Dawn Patrol Diaries, page 192. From the entry bird-watch
  • That she can do it in heels is what lights a fire under Swiftiedom.2024, Juliet Eklund, "Miss Americana: Taylor Swift as a Battleground for Feminist Discourse", thesis submitted to the University of…. From the entry Swiftiedom
  • One second you're head over heels in love with it; the next you're searching 'Manchester' on Rightmove.2023 October 11, Will Noble, “Are These The 6 Most Marmite Things In London?”, in Londonist. From the entry marmite
  • Hard on the heels of of punctuality and reliability comes capacity.2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3. From the entry on the heels of
  • She began walking away from the open room, toward the teddies, her shoe heels going cloop, cloop.2023, Daniel Kraus, chapter 19, in They Set the Fire (The Teddies Saga; 3), New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, “Evidence”…. From the entry cloop

Meaning of heel

  1. noun The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
  2. noun The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
  3. noun The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.

Full definition of heel

Questions about heel in a sentence

How do you use heel in a sentence?
Heel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He drove the heel of his hand into the man's nose.”
What is a short sentence with heel?
“she heeled her horse forward”
What does heel mean?
Heel means the rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heel (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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