Sentence examples for its heel from inspiring English sources

The Library of America, in a volume of her works, writes that "Jackson's characters – mostly unloved daughters in search of a home, a career, a family of their own – chase what appears to be a harmless dream until, without warning, it turns on its heel to seize them by the throat.

In addition to "The Jersey," "The Wall Street" (the dollar sign) and "The Hipster" (the guitar): "The Chelsea", a man; "The MoMA," a modern abstraction; "The Coffee Cup," by the Hungarian Pastry Shop in Morningside Heights; "The Villager," a dog, for Greenwich Village; and "The Ladies' Mile," a single high-heeled shoe, cooling its heel outside Bergdorf Goodman.

It slithers, blinks, kicks up its heel, breathes.

WHENEVER Iran takes a step forward, something clutches at its heel.

The male duck-billed platypus infuses its heel spurs with a cobralike poison.

If the government turned on its heel and started to follow his economic advice, he would celebrate, he says.

But India did not trust Mr Musharraf, so it dragged its heels.

It turned on its heels and returned to its scrum at Gate 8.

But it can also drag its heels mulishly.

And hot on its heels was the burkini 46percentt would like it to be outlawed.

If anything it feels as though Berlin is digging in its heels.