"broken shoes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to any type of shoe that is worn and is in a broken or damaged state. For example: "This thrift store had plenty of broken shoes, so I ended up finding a pair I liked."
There is rubbish everywhere, discarded sleeping bags, rotting food, broken shoes half buried in the sand.
For now, though, they still pick through refuse — shards of glass smeared with the remains of yesterday's dinner, broken shoes mixed in with rotting meat — with bare hands.
Rembrandt portrayed himself in a beggar's cloak with his toes protruding from broken shoes, then in a dignified cape and velvet hat; he presented himself laughing, raging, dejected.
A few black queens dressed as exaggerated minstrel show Topsys fresh from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' In ragged dresses and broken shoes, hair knotted wild, they would turn to each other with a delirious, angry edge to their voices and shout: 'Law Missis!
On the square, there were workers from the slums with broken shoes; university professors; ex-Army officers; trendy upper-middle-class girls with long black hair and Fendi sunglasses; imams and Coptic priests; National Democratic Party members.
Whether the stories are embellished by Cristiano due to his left-wing tendencies, the tales of him and his brother kicking around anything that resembled a football from morning until night with broken shoes and torn clothes are endearing.
The band's instruments are made out of materials recycled from the dump, including oil drums, utensils, even broken shoe heels.
Rahimifard's team have designed machines that break shoes into small pieces and separate different materials so they can be reused as building materials, but he accepts this is not a perfect solution.
You WILL spend some good cash on skating stuff because your stuff will break (shoes, board and stuff).
Forget about that old adage of "breaking shoes in" - You want to find comfortable shoes that fit your feet, not make your feet fit the shoes.
So, when breaking shoes in at home, wear early, wear often, and don't feel like you need to put your shoes on for hours at a time to notice a difference.
