Sentence examples for shoelace with from inspiring English sources

You should have, in appearance, a flat shoelace with double thickness and two sides.

Make about four eyelets to thread the shoelace with an awl.

Again, if you are using the "tree" trick, instruct your child to wrap the shoelace with the knot over the "trunk" of the tree.

Learn how to tie his shoelaces with a robotic hand.

For thread he used unraveled socks and shoelaces, with scraps of boxer shorts for backing.

Claire and I resolved early on to prevent any unforeseen disasters; we worked for hours replacing leather buckles with velcro fastenings and shoelaces with elasticated flaps.

Egypt's prosecutor general said in a statement that Mr. Lunn was found hanging from a bathroom door by his leather belt and shoelaces, with blood running from his nose.

As a player more attuned to fast 3-D action games on PC's, I found that adjusting to the Nintendo 64 controller was like trying to tie shoelaces with fingers soaked in Novocain.

But he, too, discovered things to enjoy at the exhibition, which finds clever ways to describe the challenges inherent in getting mechanical objects to do things that humans find easy — like the interactive station that invites people to try tying shoelaces with two pairs of pliers.

More than two decades after he helped spark a questionable craze for threading shoelaces with Grolsch bottletops, Goss, now 41, has just been announced as a headline act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, former home to Rat Pack idols Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Performing a mixture of big band numbers and original material, Goss has already attracted comparisons to Ol' Blue Eyes.

In his first novel, "The Mezzanine" (1988), he chronicled an office worker's expedition to buy shoelaces, with digressive footnotes about ice-cube trays, Jiffy Pop and the distinction between "oop" and "oops" -- all in the course of a lunch hour.