Sentence examples for heels up from inspiring English sources

This observation prompted Marco Narici of Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain and his (all male) team to find out once and for all what, if anything, happens to legs persistently subjected to high-heeled treatment.By pushing heels up, such shoes in effect shorten the calf muscles.

I should be kicking my heels up and patting myself on the back.

They had thrown her shoes — a pair of high heels — up into a tree.

"But there's this suggestion that when the president leaves we all just kick our heels up".

She was discovered, then recreated from her high heels up to her 1940s hairdo, by legendary director Howard Hawks.

I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up".

Action of the gastrocnemius pulls the heel up and thus extends the foot downward; the muscle provides the propelling force in running and jumping.

They heeled up to twenty degrees with the rudder hard over.

The ships lost up to 65% speed with the twin rudders hard over, and heeled up to 11 degrees.

The ships lost up to 54% of their speed at hard rudder, and would heel up to 7°.

The ships heeled up to fourteen degrees and lost up to 50% speed with the rudder hard over at high speed.