(1) It was fully staffed with waiters in white jackets and plimsolls.
(2) Plimsolls restricted extension of the joint to a mean angle of 57 degrees, while orthoses further reduced the angle of metatarsophalangeal joint extension to a mean angle of 55 degrees.
(3) He is wearing a rugby shirt – one of his signatures – with braces, ribbed socks and pair of battered old plimsoles.
(4) But the game is up when he claps eyes on my gleaming white plimsolls and smirks.
(5) The BBC, said James, was like a "large and unwieldy ship … with a crew that was somewhat discontented and a little mutinous, the ship sinking close to the Plimsoll line and the customers feeling they have paid too much for their journey and not quite sure where they are going or who is the captain".
(6) So-and-so smells.” “So-and-so wears gutties [plimsolls] instead of shoes.” “So-and-so’s Bugsy.” With some encouragement from their neat, scrubbed peers, these remorseless critics would tease and bully the Bugsy kids.
Sneaker
Definition:
(n.) One who sneaks.
(n.) A vessel of drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
(2) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
(3) They were attributed to the chronic pressure of his high-laced athletic sneakers and frequent minor injuries to the involved areas.
(4) The following conclusions were obtained: 1) The assembly line workers handled about 3,400 sneaker shoes per day on the assembly line.
(5) Now it's meaningful in this world to say that you sell sneakers, at a high level."
(6) Three types of protective suits for asbestos removal work were tested in a climatic chamber at two ambient temperatures, 25 degrees and 36 degrees C. Four subjects performed 50 min of bicycle exercise at 90 W dressed in shorts, socks and sneakers (NoPS).
(7) One patient wears sneakers instead of regular shoes.
(8) One of the girls developed foot dermatitis later from the adhesive used on the inside of new sneakers.
(9) You see these shoes?” she says, brandishing a pair of Timberland sneakers outside her tent on a pier in Piraeus port.
(10) Step length in heeled shoes was shorter than that in sneakers and flat shoes.
(11) However, children wearing low-top sneakers had the lowest rate of LOF (24.0%) of any group.
(12) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
(13) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
(14) But the MacNN site goes on to say that this branch in Regent Street generates three times the revenue per square foot as Harrods – the corner store of the super-rich now easily overtaken by the man we will shortly see, no doubt wearing the usual black polo-neck and sneakers, pulling his next revolutionary magic rabbit out of the iHat.
(15) And we had the crystal ball, motherfuckin' Do the Right Thing with John Savage's character, when he rolled his bike over Buggin' Out's sneaker.
(16) Falls were three times more frequent in sneakers as compared to shoes on tile surfaces and five times more frequent on rugging.
(17) Forty-three years old, he wore light jeans, an orange T-shirt and silver sneakers; his face, with its goatee and glasses, was poised at a precise fulcrum between relaxed southern gentleman – a young Colonel Sanders, maybe – and eager fantasy geek.
(18) Working principally to prevent repeat teen pregnancy, improve birth outcomes to teen mothers, and build adolescent parenting skills, the Nike (sneaker)-Footed Health Worker Project (NFHW) draws trainees from the target population of parenting adolescents.
(19) April is in a parka, jeans and her beloved Birkenstock clogs, Scott is in his lumberjack gear, Ken is in sneakers as per usual.
(20) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.