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How to use shoelace in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Shoelace means a lace used for fastening a shoe. Example: “He bent down to tie his shoelace.”

Examples of shoelace by meaning

nounA lace used for fastening a shoe.

  • tie up one's shoelaces
  • He bent down to tie his shoelace.
  • The hiker’s shoelace snapped halfway up the trail.

More sentences with shoelace

  • Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?From the entry spot
  • Push the aglet of the shoelace through each of the eyelets, one at a time.From the entry eyelet
  • The cat was always on the prowl for bit of string or a dangling shoelace.From the entry on the prowl
  • He tried to tie his shoelace but was all fingers and thumbs due to his nervousness.From the entry all fingers and thumbs
  • You can tie your own shoelaces – you're a big girl now.From the entry big girl
  • He’s nine years old, and can’t even tie his own shoelaces!From the entry can't even
  • I tripped over my shoelace and fell flat on my face.From the entry fall flat on one's face
  • John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.From the entry mischief
  • Many people with dyspraxia have difficulty with tying shoelaces.From the entry dyspraxia
  • I had to disentangle him from his own shoelaces.From the entry disentangle
  • The aiglet of the shoelace passes through each grommet.From the entry aiglet
  • The cat swiped at the shoelace.From the entry swipe
  • He hid shoelaces or rope under cushions to use as ligatures.2018, Eli Rosenberg, “She stalked the Golden State Killer until she died. Some think her work led to the suspect’s arrest”, in The…. From the entry ligature
  • Manchester, the biggest of the lot, makes a specialty of pecking at my shoelaces.1938 September 17, “From the Editor’s Easy Chair”, in Welford Beaton, editor, Hollywood Spectator, thirteenth year, volume 13, number 17…. From the entry duckess
  • Solow said, “he peddled neckties, shoelaces and collar-buttons from a tray.1930, Michael Gold, “Portrait of My Mother”, in The Menorah Journal, volume XVIII, page 63. From the entry collar-button
  • "I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping.2002, Diana Wynne Jones, A Tale of Time City, page 41. From the entry whinge
  • LENINE’S finish does not interest us especially, but we hope that Trotsky will live long enough to resume business in the Bronx, dispensing shoelaces and collarbuttons.1918 August 13, The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXXVII, number 193, page 6, column 3. From the entry collarbutton

Meaning of shoelace

  1. noun A lace used for fastening a shoe.

Full definition of shoelace

Questions about shoelace in a sentence

How do you use shoelace in a sentence?
Shoelace is used as a noun. For example: “He bent down to tie his shoelace.”
What is a short sentence with shoelace?
“tie up one's shoelaces”
What does shoelace mean?
Shoelace means a lace used for fastening a shoe.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoelace (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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