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Example sentences for "toes"

Lexicographically close words:
todos; toe; toed; toeing; toen; toff; toffee; toffs; toffy; tofore
  1. Old Monsieur will be sitting on one side of the hearth and I on the other, while Baby Max toasts his toes in their scarlet slippers on a stool between us.

  2. A foot bearing the weight of the whole body, should not be playing its toes up and down, but flat upon the ground; except when it rests entirely upon the heel.

  3. To be warm, to sleep without one's equipment, one's toes quite free in one's socks!

  4. A little higher up the slope a man is lying flat on his stomach, supporting his chin on his hands, and reading absorbedly, digging his toes in the soil the while.

  5. There were two girls with six fingers and six toes; there was one girl with six fingers and five toes on the right side, and five fingers and five toes on the other; the fourth, a boy, had five fingers and five toes.

  6. Is it not most likely that had these people married and their descendants continued to intermarry with each other, that a new variety of men having six fingers and six toes would have been the result?

  7. Your claws grew too hooked, and your toes too large while you were up there on the cliff," Akka replied.

  8. Their toes and claws were grimy with dried-in mud, and the corners of their mouths were covered with food drippings.

  9. A shiver shot through Triffitt's spine and went out of his toes with a final sting.

  10. But all in vain, for the toes are irrecoverably divided, and whatever is done, though as an aggregate they retain their power, as individual nations they are always distinct.

  11. In this divided period it is represented by the ten toes on the image, and the ten horns on the beast.

  12. The ten toes are described as kings, or kingdoms in chap.

  13. The other boot thudded upon the floor and Hurley leaned back in his chair, stretched out his legs and regarded the toes of his woollen socks.

  14. Lon Camden sat looking on with bulging eyes, and beyond the stove Saginaw Ed shook with silent mirth as he wriggled his toes in his thick woollen socks.

  15. Seven toes on each of his two feet, seven fingers on each of his two hands, with the grasp of a hawk's claws, with the seizure of a griffin's claws on each of them separately.

  16. The charioteer in front of him; the back of the charioteer's head towards the horses, the reins grasped by his toes (?

  17. And Hal will be mincing along with his toes turned out like a dancing-master!

  18. At dark the man and me started on, I stubing my toes against sticks and stones.

  19. The signs of a hip-joint dislocation are shortening of the limb, loss of motion, pain, and the turning of the toes in toward the opposite foot.

  20. The nails of the toes should be kept as carefully as those of the hands.

  21. With patent leathers, paper or cotton stuffed in the toes prevents the leather from wrinkling, and in this instance the very cheap material is better than the more expensive appliance.

  22. By the slightest approach to the tip of his Nose, Meagrims, headache, and vapors were put to the rout; And one single touch of his precious Great Toes Was a certain specific for chillblains and gout.

  23. Fancying the toes were all come back again.

  24. He loved to chat, especially if he could get off his shoes and wriggle his toes in the sunshine.

  25. It was noticed that he scarcely had his shoes on during this week and that he even walked to the post office barefooted, squirming his delighted toes into the warm sand with apparent enjoyment.

  26. Instead, he basked in the sunshine, twiddling his bare toes ecstatically, and let the huge bulk of him sink more contentedly into the well-reinforced armchair which creaked under his slightest motion.

  27. He scarcely put on his shoes except when he was going out to wallow through the drifts; and, as Coldriver knew, when Scattergood waggled his bare toes he was struggling with a problem.

  28. His pudgy toes worked busily while he reflected upon the sum of three thousand dollars and what the theft of that amount might indicate.

  29. Following this he sighed with a great contentment and twiddled his bare toes openly and flagrantly in the eyes of all Coldriver.

  30. Scattergood wriggled his toes furiously and squinted his eyes.

  31. Scattergood reached down mechanically and removed his huge shoes; then, stretching out his fat legs gratefully, he twiddled his toes in the sunlight and gave himself up to practical thought.

  32. So Jason held on, and the town meeting approached, and Scattergood continued to sit in idleness on the piazza of his store and twiddle his bare toes in the sunshine.

  33. Presently he was twiddling his pudgy toes and concentrating on Sarah Pound.

  34. He could not wriggle a toe, which made his mental processes difficult, for his toes were first aids to his brain.

  35. It was too cold to omit the wearing of heavy woolen socks, so he could not twiddle his toes with perfect freedom, but he could twiddle them some, and that helped his mental processes.

  36. An ordinary problem Scattergood could solve with shoes on feet, but let the matter take on eminent difficulty and his toes must be given freedom and elbow room, as one might say.

  37. Scattergood was thinking, and to think, with him, meant so to unfetter his feet that he could wriggle his toes pleasurably.

  38. Again he understood how to drive in the toes of his hoofs and go up safely through loose gravel where most horses, even mustangs, would have skidded to the bottom of the slope.

  39. A broad-faced man, laughing and obviously too self- contented to see what he was doing, trod heavily on the toes of Terry, stepping past the latter to get his winnings.

  40. But he gathered his toes under him, so that he remained continually poised in spite of the seeming awkwardness of his position.

  41. Terence, before you grow up you'll have sore toes from stumbling, take my word for it!

  42. Every small alley as he passed seemed to contain a Jem Hardy, who whizzed out like a human firework in front of him, and then followed dancing on his toes a pace or two in his rear.

  43. Two minutes later Miss Nugent, enthroned in the best chair with her toes on the fender, gave her faithful subject a free pardon and full permission to make hot coffee.

  44. If I was stuffed with mad water from the toes to the eyelids, I could not kill Nuna.

  45. I can go a little further, but most of the Innuits get confused in mind beyond twenty, because they have only ten fingers and ten toes to look at.

  46. By the geological time mentioned, therefore, the earliest true horses had already lost some of the toes that their progenitors possessed.

  47. Instead of walking upon their toes like cats and dogs, these animals plant their feet flat upon the ground; and they agree in many other details of structure that place them together, but somewhat apart from the other tribes.

  48. Its forefeet had four toes each, and its hinder limbs ended with three toes armed with small hoofs, but one of its relatives of the same time has a vestige of another digit on the hind foot.

  49. The horse comes last with one large toe and hoof, but on either side of the main bones of this digit are vestiges of what must have been toes in its ancestors.

  50. The elephant possesses five toes armed with well-developed nails or hoofs.

  51. The structure of their feet is beautifully adapted for clinging to and running over smooth surfaces; the underside of their toes being expanded into cushions, beneath which folds of skin form a series of flexible plates.

  52. Then she couldn't help regarding the two boys with wide-eyed astonishment; they dug the toes of their shoes in the snow, and wouldn't look at her.

  53. David was silently digging his toes back and forth on the floor.

  54. You couldn't a-killed him, Dave," he cried at little Davie tucking up his toes under him on the grass.

  55. Down flew Joel in a heap under his end of the blanket, where he bestowed a kick from one set of toes on David in a little heap against the wall.

  56. And as quick as a shot he dropped Polly's hand and skipped off on the tips of his toes over the grass and around the back of the house.

  57. Joel squirmed all over the little patch of ground before the flat doorstone, and dug the toes of his shoes into the dirt.

  58. Edith Barretto Parsons A gleeful little soul with chubby toes - more gleeful than the quacking ducks she squeezes.

  59. Janet Scudder With the rhyton, the Greek drinking-horn in his hand, Cupid stands above the globe, his little toes holding on firmly so that he will not slip.

  60. Attilio Piccirilli A powerful nude; his very toes portray his grief; surely suggested by Rodin's work.


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