Sentence examples for like a boot from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the silhouette of Renzi's shoes-socks-trousers combination was always likely to be remarked upon in a nation that itself looks like a boot.

It must have been like a boot camp.

What You'll Find Richmond Hill is shaped like a boot.

There was a tiny silver charm that looks like a boot.

This work has been like a boot camp into that kind of discipline.

"China's currency manipulation is like a boot to the throat of our recovery," Senator Charles Schumer, of New York, said in September.

Welby's doctrinal foundations as an undergraduate were laid at conservative evangelical house-parties, more like a boot-camp than a holiday.

And so off I went, with that dreaded connection through the grandly named George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, where more often than not I have to run like a boot-camp grunt from one distant terminal to another to get to my connecting flight.

Now big non-tech businesses are mimicking them by investing in innovation centers or labs that look and feel more like a boot-strapped venture rather than a global enterprise.

The music that they play invariably has nothing to do with Carnival, and all to do with white guilt, like a Boots' advert idea of Caribbean music, "Get Up Stand Up" and "cool 50s stuff".

Would you like a pair of boots to go with that skirt you bought last month?