Sentence examples for laces from inspiring English sources
The word "laces" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used as a noun to refer to the cord used to draw together the two sides of a shoe. Example: I need to buy a new pair of laces for my sneakers.
verb
Third person singular of lace
Afterwards, Urbanowicz would return to his job in a shoe shop, tying laces for old ladies, marvelling at the contradictions.
Whether anyone ironed the wartime prime minister's shoe laces, washed his loose change or made sure the yolks in his boiled eggs were centred, Lucy Lethbridge does not say.
Alcohol laces the breath of a parading soldier early in the morning.
When one laces up his boots to run, his friend scoffs that he can't outrun a bear.
"Personally, I'll vote Sarkozy," he adds, inspecting the laces on a black latex umbrella designed for Jean-Paul Gaultier, "because he's the most friendly to entrepreneurs".
His battered shoes are far too big and the laces are tied around his ankles.
"La Vie", created by Les 7 Doigts de la Main, a Montreal-based troupe, laces an array of artfully sexy circus acts with the premise that everyone is dead and in purgatory, travelling on "a flight to hell that never quite gets there".
Dressed in a black lace Armani Prive gown which had fashion writers salivating, Blanchett admitted to having "downed a few vodkas" while waiting to hear if she had won her third Golden Globe.
Some believe the weather is already being shaped by "chemtrails" – aeroplane contrails deliberately laced with toxic chemicals – and mysterious weather warmongers are, for reasons unknown, making the eastern US unbearably chilly and California stricken by drought.
A handful of objects including a Victorian cast of the head of a hanged man and a delicate lace pillow embroidered with her own hair by a woman arrested hundreds of times for public drunkenness have left one of the most private collections in the world for the first time, for the first public exhibition from the Black Museum of the Metropolitan police.
The road west of town was lined with signs advertising "fresh water", where tankers can take on a box-car-sized load of water laced with industrial chemicals.
