Example Sentences

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I thought of my big, disgusting Size 11 feet, which are wide and flat and have the look of scuba flippers and which designers have shod only begrudgingly.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2018

There are vast boot and shoe factories, which would have shod our whole Crimean army in a week, at one of which the owner pays 60,000 dollars or 12,000_l._ in wages annually!

From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Fairly well; he was a boy in these parts, an' I have shod his riding horse many a time.

From My Lady of Doubt by Kimball, Alonzo

They have shod the feet of a murderess.

From The Medici Boots by Swet, Pearl Norton

We have shod her in dainty bottines, regretting the size of her feet. 

From Tea-Table Talk by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)