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Example sentences for "goloshes"

Lexicographically close words:
golfing; golliwog; golly; gollywog; golosh; golpe; golt; goma; gombeen; gombi
  1. I obeyed, and exchanged my overcoat and goloshes for a circular metal ticket.

  2. I committed the lad to her in this double capacity; and equipped with a pair of goloshes from the wardrobe of the late McRankine, sallied forth upon the rain-swept street.

  3. He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather.

  4. And instantly Maurice, amid a heap of goloshes and old tennis bats, felt with a swelling heart that he was no longer a cat.

  5. Illustration: He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather.

  6. Possibly because I had run out into the street without my cap and goloshes I was in a high fever.

  7. He left his goloshes in the hall, and, without taking off his long, heavy fur coat, went into the study.

  8. Next to me stood a peasant with a swollen face and red beard, in a ragged jacket, with worn-out goloshes on his naked feet, though there were eight degrees of frost.

  9. Now, the damp never gets farther than my goloshes and my Macintosh.

  10. I should only put on goloshes now, and think of the days when I despised damp.

  11. I begin dreaming how, when I am grown up, I will buy goloshes exactly like them.

  12. An old fancier in a fur cap, iron-rimmed spectacles, and goloshes that look like two dread-noughts, walks about by the waggons of birds and pails of fish.

  13. The slope from her little goloshes to the bottom of the ice hill seemed to her a terrible, immensely deep abyss.

  14. Then sounds reach her from the entry of whispering, the shuffling of goloshes and a door being shut.

  15. When the loud noise of some one blowing his nose and putting off his goloshes dies away, the singer hears cautious footsteps in her bedroom.

  16. XI They came loitering to the square, white house, pausing at the gate and talking to friends, lingering over the removal of their goloshes indoors.

  17. Every one put on goloshes to climb or descend the hill to church.

  18. Mary Louise pulled on her beret and her goloshes and went out into the snow again.

  19. Goodness me, don't you know what goloshes are?

  20. Gabriel coloured, as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes.

  21. Gabriel paced in a circle round the hall in his goloshes amid the laughter of the others.

  22. Brougham have they none; goloshes and a lanthorn their only substitute.

  23. The apricot sunset and the harvest moon will be their two lanthorns to-night; but upon the goloshes Peggy has, in the case of her sister, sternly insisted.

  24. It was raining in torrents, but, thanks to her goloshes and umbrella, Rigolette had boldly faced the wind and rain.

  25. A few minutes afterwards, Rigolette, having put on her goloshes and taken her umbrella, left the prison more joyfully than she had entered it.

  26. A sound of goloshes was heard from the passage.

  27. Noisily shuffling his down-trodden goloshes and slowly swinging his heavy, clumsy figure, the man at last reached the very top flight and stopped before a half-open door hanging off its hinges.

  28. Sure enough, there he lay on an upper shelf of a vapor bath, still in his evening costume, with his boots and goloshes on, and the hot drops from the ceiling falling on his face.

  29. No," replied Care; "you may depend upon it that whoever puts on those goloshes will be very unhappy, and bless the moment in which he can get rid of them.

  30. It never occurred to him that these could be goloshes of Fortune.

  31. The clerk turned and spoke to the man; but when he had done with him, he turned to look at the goloshes again, and now he was in greater doubt than ever as to whether the pair on the right or on the left belonged to him.

  32. The same day he was allowed to leave, but the goloshes remained at the hospital.

  33. The goloshes of Fortune were the wet pair; and, besides, why should not a clerk in a police office be wrong sometimes?

  34. He went on at first like a mere automaton, without thought or wish; therefore the goloshes had no opportunity to display their magic power.

  35. At the same moment his coat-tails and sleeves grew together and formed wings, his clothes changed to feathers, and his goloshes to claws.

  36. The goloshes of Fortune had placed him in this terrible position, and unfortunately it never occurred to him to wish himself free.

  37. He started back, quite bewildered with the fright which the goloshes of Fortune had caused him.

  38. The servants of the house make a point of arranging the goloshes heel outwards, in such a way that when the visitor goes out he can put his feet straight into them, without having the trouble of turning them round.

  39. Now, when the agent of suitor for a lady's hand, on leaving the house, finds that her goloshes are turned with the toes towards her, she knows that the proposal has been declined.

  40. This had not interested us in the least till then; perhaps we had not even admitted the idea that a man who went out in all weathers in goloshes and slept under curtains could be in love.

  41. He was remarkable for always wearing goloshes and a warm wadded coat, and carrying an umbrella even in the very finest weather.

  42. Some mischievous person drew a caricature of Byelikov walking along in his goloshes with his trousers tucked up, under his umbrella, with Varinka on his arm; below, the inscription 'Anthropos in love.

  43. And, as though in his honour, it was dull, rainy weather on the day of his funeral, and we all wore goloshes and took our umbrellas.

  44. Well, at that point you ought to have taken away his goloshes and umbrella," said Ivan Ivanovitch.

  45. Master Anthony Thom--"Yes; goloshes and all.

  46. Goloshes were useless, and we soon discarded them, and, but for fear of hurting my feet with hidden stones or sticks, I would have discarded my shoes too.

  47. So there was cloaking in hot haste, and the gentlemen who lived near brought all the top-boots and goloshes they could collect for the benefit of those who had to cross the partially submerged roads.

  48. Why did she read Greek plays with a person who left goloshes on the mat, and brought out an ancient umbrella with a waist, on an absolutely cloudless day?

  49. Martha, whose goloshes are those, sitting on the mat in the hall?

  50. He wore a long cloth overcoat with yellow bone buttons, blue trousers not thrust into his boots, and sturdy goloshes--the huge clumsy goloshes only seen on the feet of practical and prudent persons of firm religious convictions.

  51. The custom of using goloshes as "hell-shoes" (fastened on the Icelandic dead in the Sagas) needs confirmation.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goloshes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.