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  • noun Plural form of instep.

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Examples

  • Now I'm worried about my sandals, Jimmy Choos, the sun already burning stripes across my insteps.

    Something about L.A. Gay Degani 2011

  • As if to encourage the fantasies of the stranger sitting nearby, she kicked off her high-heeled shoes and hitched up her skirt to scratch her stockinged insteps, exposing a satisfying glimpse of white thigh.

    Ballardian » The Office Park 2010

  • Those ended up beneath the table, under my insteps.

    Glimpses: Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 2005 Francine McKenna 2011

  • But dancers really do, as in "Swan," sit around sewing pink ribbons on toe shoes and massaging their insteps, when not vying for the attention of the man we used to call Mr. B Balanchine.

    Erica Abeel: WERE-SWANS AND DARK DOUBLES TAKE MANHATTAN Erica Abeel 2010

  • I swung my legs, knocking together the insteps of my black pinstripe creepers.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • My insteps caught on the under-side of the dash, and as we hit the ground, I was slammed back down onto my seat.

    Above the River's Edge 2010

  •  All I had to do was show the cigarette burns on the insteps of my feet to prove that one.

    The Impossible Division by Zero Okla Elliott 2010

  • But dancers really do, as in Swan, sit around sewing pink ribbons on toe shoes and massaging their insteps, when not vying for the attention of the man we used to call Mr. B Balanchine.

    Erica Abeel: Were-Swans and Dark Doubles Take Manhattan Erica Abeel 2010

  • They're having "Tom and Susannah" tattoed on their insteps, in Arabic.

    The rise and rise of the tattoo 2010

  • I swung my legs, knocking together the insteps of my black pinstripe creepers.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

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