sandals

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
His leather sandals are among five items to be auctioned

View all »
Definitions (17)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (5)

  1. noun A shoe consisting of a sole fastened to the foot by thongs or straps.
  2. noun A low-cut shoe fastened to the foot by an ankle strap.
  3. noun A rubber overshoe cut very low and covering little more than the sole of the shoe.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • This condition had been anticipated and at a word from Damis, lead weights, made to clamp on the soles of their sandals were passed out from the space ship. —  Giants on the Earth
  • The ladies have sandals, and some of them shoes. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • Patsy had spread Jean Garland's scarlet sash to its broadest, and so had been able to let down her skirt of blue linen till it came to almost her ankles, above which the yellow cross-gartering of the sandals was diamonded in the Greek fashion her Uncle Julian had taught her Patsy had found piles of unwashen dishes and spoons, for the boys of the Glenanmays family depended for cleaning up upon uncertain, semi-occasional visits, from one or other of their sisters. —  Patsy
  • Even the sandals were so dilapidated that the feet of their wearer were upon the ground. —  Which? or, Between Two Women
  • His poncho, which served as his outer garment, was of alpaca wool of the same hue as his shirt; and on his head he wore a broad-brimmed hat, while his sandals were of untanned leather, just covering his toes, and secured by a thong round the ankle. —  Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Words tagged sandals

Stats

This word has been looked up 41 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

repudiates · reason · depleted · balloon · engagement

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

autotruncate · rimshot · qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake