surgical boot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There was plenty of nursing work that could be done just as well in a surgical boot as in a shoe.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2019
She arrived on stage wearing a surgical boot which she explained in an anecdote neither interesting nor uninteresting, just ambiently pleasant to listen to, like cicadas.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2017
One of the greatest female distance runners in history is no longer shuffling on crutches or wobbling in a surgical boot.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2015
A year later he watched the next Adelaide Test on television, a surgical boot on his foot, after an operation on his toe that would keep him out for five months.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2013
Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil.
From Time Magazine Archive
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