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    Use "heel" in a sentence

    heel example sentences

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    1. Travis spun back on his heel, whistling a tune about sunshine


    2. She felt really stupid about that now, and like a real heel


    3. She sure could be a heel


    4. With that he turned smartly on his heel and walked off towards the bottom of


    5. trolley at the lead woman of the pack, turned on her heel and marched out of the store


    6. "That right knuckle-head," he pushed Travis's craggy forehead back with the heel of his hand, "I your teacher and I fucking tell you already about unlocking the Yant but you didn't have god damn ears, only want to know about how to make Yant more quickly, more powerful, more beautiful


    7. Twigs snapped under his heel and the black mulch of


    8. wing of the little Austin Metro barely flexed under heel


    9. the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the


    10. ’ He replied, turning on his heel and rushing out of the room

    11. ground the chicken bone to dust slowly and deliberately under the heel of his boot


    12. It resisted, and he held on to the bulkhead straps and kicked at it with one heel until Chief Horcheese thumped it once with her artificial fist and a few hundred kilograms of force


    13. Despite years of neglect made visible by thin, almost transparent patches of rust and jaggedly flaking automotive paint, the front wing of the little Austin Metro barely flexed under heel


    14. The driver of this last example of a long since fallen British automotive empire splashed disconsolately towards the rear of the vehicle, depressed the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the tailgate with his left


    15. the speared and bloody heel his endearing humanity,


    16. because they had a compass in the heel


    17. in the heel of my shoes in wild gyrating magnetic loops


    18. He was able to touch his foot to things now, and actually rest the heel on the ground without it actively grabbing his attention


    19. It would be a shame to succeed and to then let money be your Achilles’ heel


    20. ( An Achilles’ heel is a deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, which can actually or potentially lead to downfall

    21. with the heel of your hand and step forward bravely


    22. Sit down on the floor, tailor fashion, with the heel of one foot touching the perineum and the heel of the other underneath the opposite ankle


    23. Assume the first stage of the posture which by now will be familiar to you, bat this time bend your left leg until your heel touches your right buttock


    24. At last they came to a very down at heel street, where most of the back-to-back terraced houses were either boarded up or bare boned skeletons


    25. He felt like a heel leaving her like this


    26. I could still make out the heel mark in the shattered glass


    27. mascara eyes of a very down at heel looking lady, who was dressed


    28. At last they came to a very down at heel street, where most of


    29. rising from the pit of his stomach and was about to turn on his heel


    30. Stubbins opened her mouth as if to rebut Mandy's observations, but being without any other ammunition than her own myopic prejudice, ignorance, and baseless claims to superiority, snapped her jaw tight, turned on her heel and waddled back to her store, wagging her head as if in heated abuse of some mutton-headed underling

    31. Without a word, Chrissie turned on her heel and walked out of the room, heading along the corridor to her bedroom


    32. ‘Grinly spun on his heel, ‘Get that offal-bag out of


    33. Belle turned on her heel saying not a word


    34. Ursilla turned sharply on her heel and strode out the


    35. As Ken tries to keep the doctor in his line of fire Helen steps back with all her weight and employs the heel of her boot on his shin


    36. ” He made four impressions in the ground with his heel, at the four spots


    37. half-smoked cigar to the floor and stomped it a second later with the heel of his


    38. turned on his heel and walked slowly back to his desk


    39. Roman hit the man with the heel of his palm, driving the man’s chin


    40. "No," she shouted pushing against his firm chest, then debated if that was such a good idea, as her heel teetered, on the top step, and finally slid out from under her

    41. His heel smashed me square in the nose


    42. turning on his heel and disappearing back into the forest


    43. She went into her bedroom, and got her toes into the shoe all right, but her heel was too large


    44. word, he turned on his heel and left the room


    45. ” The bespectacled man dressed in a light tan suit turned on his heel and turned towards the hotel reception, he turned again before opening the door


    46. turned on his heel and left them both – miserable, but


    47. Black eyes knew this when he tried to scratch his nose and landed up with his finger fully up his nostril, the smaller man had nervously scratched his heel and had mangled his angle


    48. Fizzicist turned on his heel, hands covering his ears he made a run for the outside door


    49. The lance swiveled on his heel and left


    50. ’ He turned on his heel to leave, the deceitful














































    1. Aston Martin to put his Cuban heeled boot through the floor, and he duly obliged


    2. Her boots, brown and calf length, heeled but slim and forgiving, were the only


    3. The ribbon of wet sheen running towards the horizon begged the driver of the Aston Martin to put his Cuban heeled boot through the floor, and he duly obliged


    4. Her high heeled shoes didn’t match the colour of the satin, but who was going to care about that? She couldn’t wear flatties not on stage


    5. The newscaster breaks to a feel good story about a local farmer who has found a way to happiness and riches by selling some of his land to a well heeled eco-warrior who wants to pioneer solar power generation somewhere in Holsworthy's wooded hinterland


    6. Their hair was piled and curled, and their heeled riding boots were barely visible beneath the full black Anabel skirts


    7. She wore high- heeled red-leather hiking boots under the divided skirts which he had suggested for her


    8. heeled boots, and a large belt that was studded with diamonds in the pattern of


    9. Both of those fly girls were rockin’ black high heeled shoes, the kind that had the straps that wrapped around the ankles, which were wrapped, strapped, and walking through my mind as all of us NSR’s started our journey inside the rink


    10. I wasn’t used to seeing girls our age wearing high heeled shoes, except at church on Sundays

    11. ” After I had caught an eyeful, I extricated myself from the porno shop and began my quest for that neon green socked, high heeled chick as, “The freaks come out at night,” rang through my head


    12. Henrietta was wearing her low heeled or rather flat shoes and a long skirt and a dark sweater and I was pumping along in my Brooks Brothers racing jacket


    13. came the clack of heeled footsteps, and she jerked around


    14. They’re all well heeled and in business, so there’s probably something in it for him


    15. heeled and tight shoes,


    16. recalled pulling on some clothes, slacks, blouse, low heeled shoes and a heavy woollen car coat


    17. After applied effort the muscles finally heeled under his command


    18. Parts of her could still be seen—a brown flicker of her hair, her green and yellow heeled sandal, a sleeve of her white blouse


    19. More than one thousand men were trapped when she heeled over so suddenly


    20. Refreshments today were served by Lorene Eagles who drifted in and out with a generous flash of cleavage, now wearing gold strapped high heeled sandals and a sympathetic smile

    21. It was common knowledge Alex Clegg was well heeled, (forget the ‘sir’ stuff), but a wad of cash like that could easily change the direction of a man’s thinking


    22. If not well heeled, they are more than middle-class


    23. Nicky was wearing a pair of long, black, very high heeled boots, black leggings and an expensive-looking leopard print long coat with matching hat and gloves


    24. heeled congregation started their journey to a


    25. She had let her hair down, cascading around her shoulders and had opted for a simple black evening dress with sparkles and black heeled shoes


    26. Ali observed the tall lady dressed casually in jeans and a black shirt, her high heeled boots made her look even taller


    27. There was another jolt, and the raft heeled over


    28. It would have looked better on a taller girl, as did all dresses, but with heeled boots it looked quite good on me too


    29. It was very long falling to the floor, too long for her in flat shoes but she'd noticed some high heeled shoes in the boxes that would make her tall enough for it


    30. Fern stumbled along in her high heeled sandals following as carefully as she could, trying not to lose her balance and topple over

    31. His laughter continued until she managed to get her high heeled shoe onto his booted left toes


    32. canoe swung round and almost heeled over


    33. We heeled our horses forward and trotted down the road that would turn us north for Aquae Sulis


    34. It did! The Saxon went under my horse’s legs and I heeled out of the fray, regrouped with Uki


    35. He heeled into his horse’s sides and I followed


    36. We kept to our formations, all save Arthur who heeled his horse ahead of the rest of us


    37. As we rode onward, Arthur saw something I did not and he heeled out fast on his horse, turned in an arc before the first unit of infantry and stopped them; here I watched him ride up and back before them


    38. I heeled to ride over and join the Supreme Commander, and when I pulled in at his side, he said to me, “See those hills over there?” He pointed north-west


    39. I swallowed terror and heeled my horse forward, riding over to join the infantry where I would hurl my javelins into the enemy with only one working hand


    40. Hard into my horse’s sides I heeled, took off to join the troop as we headed further out into the north, turning to watch as behind us the field burned like a fire-storm

    41. The battle was now mine, and I turned back, heeled my horse to a charge, drew my sword and lost it when it was snapped out of my hand by a Saxon wielding a massive club


    42. I heeled out of the man’s reach and drew my famous Pictish dagger, charged on through the mass and saw a Saxon jump out at me; he threw himself towards me through the rain and I stabbed him with my dagger, only the dagger went driving into his forehead and lodged in the bone of his skull and would not come out no matter how hard I tried to pull it back


    43. As we rode in through the open gates, Arthur heeled on his horse ahead of us


    44. Then he left me standing, as if I could race him with javelins still in my hand, though I housed them fast, jumped up on my horse and heeled after him at full gallop


    45. Her shoes were high heeled and expensive


    46. The high heeled boots I had worn to work today had been more of a fashion statement and not a choice based on practicality


    47. ” I finished lamely, shifting from one high heeled foot to the other, as I indicated the two of us in a nervous gesture


    48. Christina cried out nervously as the right dugout canoe boat dusted up off the waves and the platform heeled over to the left to coast on just one canoe pontoon


    49. But it had heeled sideways, filling completely, and it was listing to port even yet


    50. Apparently the Nautilus had gone aground, then heeled over sharply










    1. One of the mountains of the Realm is used as a place of heeling, it is where some titans go and learn about medicines


    2. He glanced at the Argus, wallowing in the crimson sea-wash, heeling far over, her decks awash, held up by the grappling-irons


    3. Archie settled into his course, the boat heeling with the


    4. “It’s heeling, but she is going through a lot of therapy trying to get the strength back into her feet and toes


    5. He had even brought a horse for me, and for the first time in a long time I was up on horseback and heeling away, first a trot, then a group canter that had the people of the city turning to watch us leave, stopping in their tracks and some hailing us


    6. I gave him a long look before heeling hard into my horse’s sides and moving up the road and out of sight


    7. I then moved out, heeling my horse on hard to catch up with my men…


    8. footed a sea of new adventure, heeling with a stiff wind of determination abeam


    9. The steamer had struck the lighter obliquely, heeling her over till she was half swamped, starting some of her timbers, and swinging her head parallel to her own course with the force of the blow


    10. As the ship began to settle to starboard, heeling at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees, those who had believed it was all right to stick by the ship began to have doubts, and a few jumped into the sea

    11. "Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung


    12. Semén was sharpening his knives at one window, and Mikháyla was heeling a shoe at the other


    1. a weak and thin smile, turned on his heels and walked back towards the bar shaking


    2. Johnny spun round slowly on the heels lf his patent leather shoes


    3. Johnny wandered over, clicking his heels on the floor as he walked, still spinning


    4. That one simple, blithely delivered statement rocked me back on my heels


    5. head over heels delighted by, that you’ll fill the whole world


    6. The sharp retort of metalled boot heels struck out at the early morning stillness, announcing the arrival of Danton and his scowling, out of breath companion to every inmate as they bore down on the door at the end of the corridor like cannon balls, casting their grotesquely elongated shadows across the floor and up the walls


    7. the hoot and rave of hounds at my heels,


    8. Desa dug for it with one hand, Alan began losing ground as both Luray's heels made furrows in the soft soil


    9. her heels scratching the smooth worn wood


    10. Kneel down and sit back on your heels with your toes outstretched

    11. Both heels should reach the floor at the same


    12. gusting hard on the heels of Autumnal thinning


    13. head and arms by straightening your legs with your heels off the


    14. Tiffany looked over her shoulder and, to her horror, she saw two uniformed policemen rocking backwards and forwards on the heels of their big black boots


    15. ‘Which one is it?’ I asked, as he takes Adamant, and walks off, Sefir and I following on his heels, trying not to lose him in the crowd on the quay


    16. They took pride in their home and without the expense of youngsters nipping at their heels they were able to fill their lives with activities designed to displace their mutual sense of loss and longing


    17. without the expense of youngsters nipping at their heels they were


    18. In between charges the nurses compress her chest, counting out the rhythm of life in beats delivered by the heels of their hands


    19. snapping at his heels


    20. Ready to take to her heels again should the need arise, she slowly edged back along the path

    21. A couple hours into the dance ties were loosened, high heels were


    22. She walked into the kitchen in her red dress with high heels in hand and


    23. "Fuck!" Jock spins on his heels


    24. Heather got out and tried to walk in her high heels but after a couple steps


    25. Heather began to put the dress on it but tripped over one of her high heels lying


    26. I suppose this state of affairs had been going on for about six months before I realised to my horror that I’d fallen head over heels in love with the man


    27. Until that untrained operative stepped on her heels she had no idea she was being watched


    28. She figured his secret out though, she threw her heels away and went to flats


    29. So there she stopped, and removed the heels she wore, allowing her feet to feel the cobblestone, path beneath them


    30. Kaitlyn was silent while she thought about what was just said, and at length sat back on her heels, wiped a stray tress from her face with the back of her hand, then answered, “He needs to see the very results of his own efforts, without his having time to reflect upon his most extensive expectations? A riddle

    31. He was right at her heels, and he stayed there, until she had the phone in her hands


    32. As cautiously as she could, with heels on, she entered the large red building and called his name


    33. " Good thing his arms were around her, or her heels, wouldn’t have been the only thing covered with cow chips


    34. She wasn't running, just moving as fast as she could, in heels


    35. She forgot all about the care of delicate fabric, and even the white heels she’d chosen to wear


    36. " a minute later they watched as the door slammed shut at his heels and then looked into each other’s faces


    37. ” Roman watched as the high heels stumbled over


    38. “I wouldn’t worry too much about what the bitch in high heels thinks of


    39. March the nightwalkers came out in their fishnet hose and their high heels


    40. She even went so far as to slip her boots under the head of the bed and put on a pair of heels

    41. Sally jumped off me and ran with her high heels in hand


    42. For all she knew the demons were far behind, or at their heels


    43. "The Plague!" he cried, digging his heels into the dirt as a wall of undead began falling on their twenty-one heads


    44. My inspiration or motivation, if you will, to write this book came on the heels of a vacation I took to Scotland to attend the yearly book festival held in Edinburgh


    45. Alan lunged upward with the heels of both hands against the cover of the tank


    46. With the elf nearly stepping on his heels, Alec headed toward Shattered Rock's exterior wall


    47. The Prof rubbed his eyes with the heels of his hands


    48. Seaboy partnered Mary Dwindle who, small though she was, kicked up her heels and dreamed of the sea, and sailing ships, and dolphins by the score


    49. She dug heels like she hadn't since encountering that skinny theirops cub out in the Kinsheeta pass


    50. and soaking his heels in the cool water














































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    Synonyms for "heel"

    heel blackguard bounder cad dog hound reheel list submit follow obey grovel back of the foot hock sole spur

    "heel" definitions

    the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation


    the back part of the human foot


    someone who is morally reprehensible


    one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread


    the lower end of a ship's mast


    (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft


    tilt to one side


    follow at the heels of a person


    perform with the heels


    strike with the heel of the club


    put a new heel on