I'm lacing

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Whether I'm lacing up my boots, picking out some cool new running shoes, or heading to the field in awesome training gear with a bag of brand new soccer balls, I am always proud to show off the swoosh.

I'm lacing up my sneakers for my first post-marathon run as I write.

After "Kill," a song from "Earl" that is full of his signature complex rhymes - "The crowd go crazy, hands raised, I'm laced with/Swag by the eighth in case you wanna taste it" - Domo Genesis exhaled loudly and proclaimed, "I'm finding it hard not to pass out right now".

It is five minutes before practice starts, and I am lacing quickly.

"Hey, are you writing?" they would say, when I was lacing my sneakers or standing in the cafeteria line.

"Daddy, where are you going?" my son asked me recently as I was lacing up my running shoes on a cold, wet Sunday morning.

I think it's laced with insecticide or something.... My heart is going like a mile a millisecond.

The Irish stew was pretty tasty, perhaps because I imagined that it was laced with stout.

That's because it is laced with poison.

But it's laced with a powerful message for girls.

She adds: "Given how angry I was, I can easily imagine that what I said was laced with profanities".