SNEAKER


Meaning of SNEAKER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

white

A pleasant-looking young man, slicked up in new jeans and white sneakers , smiled and held open the courtroom door.

She wore a red tank top, black jeans, high white sneakers .

The players wore short-sleeve white shirts, long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers .

But Senorita Miss Carla could not be bothered with white sneakers .

■ VERB

wear

Finally, the emerging stars of basketball wore sneakers , the new signifiers of urban leisure and street style.

I made them wear sneakers , strapped them tightly into a pair of life jackets and turned them loose.

They wear sneakers , however, and do their best to look like skateboarders.

The $ 4. 76 billion footwear and apparel maker has penetrated nearly every sport in which participants wear sneakers .

Of the passers-by, the younger ones wore jeans and sneakers , but their elders were still huddled in their warms.

Some of us are wearing stylish golf shoes and some are wearing the high-priced sneakers of Tiger Woods' favorite shoe company.

She wore sneakers and droopy yellow socks.

Half the people in the car were wearing sneakers with splashy designs on them and molded soles that looked like gravy boats.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Now I wonder if I would not have been better off in sneakers and a fleece, more populist clothes.

Of the passers-by, the younger ones wore jeans and sneakers, but their elders were still huddled in their warms.

Rory walked towards her, dressed in jeans and sneakers, a soft yellow shirt.

She drove me crazy, night and day, she wanted sneakers, she wanted sneakers.

She wore a red tank top, black jeans, high white sneakers.

They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.

Who, in passing, it might be noted, wore not boots nor shoes but canvas sneakers.

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