The word 'shoelace' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to the thin lace which is used to tie shoes together, as in the following example sentence: "I had to buy a new shoelace after my old one broke."
Once, when a shoelace snapped during one such high-pressure change, I heard a fellow actor, one of our most urbane and witty leading men, scream at his dresser: "Fuck, the fucking fucker's fucked!" For one of my most nightmarish transformations, in a Jacobean classic at the Bristol Old Vic, I was aided by Claire.
Just think how difficult it would be to teach somebody to tie a shoelace or to fold an origami object by using words alone, without a diagram or a demonstration.
Most answered "no", the assumption being it was the shoelace, or the beggar's foot, or the car.
Either way, he went on to experience some nasty event (anything from tripping over a shoelace, via being tripped up deliberately by the beggar, to being run over by a car).The question asked of each volunteer was whether the second event was caused by the passer-by's behaviour towards the beggar.
Mr Medellín strangled one of the victims with her own shoelace.
Knots are still widely used in daily life, though, and are depended on by campers and hikers, mountaineers, fishermen, and weavers, among others, or even by a person tying a shoelace or a package.
"I snapped a shoelace in the very first scene," he quipped, when asked what the worst had been.
The publication likened it to "a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace".
Even the hinges of the door have been fully recessed so there is nothing to which a belt, shoelace, shirt or other means of self-harm might be fixed.
This elite's number was reduced by one by yesterday's withdrawal of Justin Rose (apparently he aggravated a long-standing back injury while bending down to tie a shoelace on the weekend) but the field still retains a high-quality feel.
Spokespeople for the museum said he was believed to have tripped on an untied shoelace but was unharmed by the accident.
