'soles' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to refer to the thick leather or rubber bottom of shoes (e.g. hiking boots, running shoes, etc.). For example: "I need to buy new hiking boots because the soles of my current pair are worn out."
"When a client came, if you didn't want to go with him they would slap you and whip the soles of your feet," Pamela says, her voice trembling.
Unattractive boots with excellent traction are traded for sexier boots with questionable soles.
Consumers embraced their light-weight, super-thin, puncture-resistant soles with zeal, merrily dismissing decades of conventional wisdom about the virtues of supported arches and cushioned heels.
But while millions plod about on thick rubber soles, today's elite runners continue to wear thin racing flats that differ little from the soft leather pair Roger Bannister wore while breaking the four-minute mile in 1954.
In 1912 an exhaustive treatise on the subject, "The Soldier's Foot and The Military Shoe" by Edmund Munson, an American general, warned against wearing thick soles and stressed that a shoe should not support the arch, as that only weakens the foot muscles.
You know, the ones with the high heels and red bottoms".In the 20 years since Christian Louboutin made his first pair of ladies' shoes with shiny red-lacquered soles, his vertiginously heeled, sexy, colourful and nearly unwearable creations have become an object of desire for celebrities like Ms Lopez, Angelina Jolie and Madonna, who even lets her daughter Lourdes wear a metal-studded number.
The price per square metre for apartments in posher Lima districts has doubled since 2007 in constant soles (and almost tripled in dollars).
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In a paper just published in Nature Materials, they describe how they replicated the way that geckos cling to ceilings in a new, glue-free adhesive tape.A gecko's powers come from tiny hairs on the soles of its feet.
They are beaten on the soles of the feet.
Seated cross-legged and bare-footed, the traditional Pushtun loves nothing more than to sip a glass of sweet green tea with one hand and caress the soles of his feet with the other.It is a gesture designed to convey how entirely at ease with the world he is.
