SANDAL


Meaning of SANDAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

flat

She walked upstairs and changed quickly, slipping on a light flowered sundress in bold colours and her flat sandals .

She wore a short white cotton dress and flat sandals , her long legs tanned to a rich golden-brown.

She slipped on some flat sandals , and made her way downstairs to the sound of voices.

white

Wedge-heeled white sandals completed her outfit.

Her white socks and sandals pristine on her little feet.

On his knees he took off the slipper, slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot.

She added elaborate long ear-rings and white openwork sandals with high heels.

She put on her white sandals .

■ NOUN

leather

He wore a light yellow tunic which reached the knee, and on his feet were leather sandals with decorated metal buckles.

Before leaving he sent General Smuts a gift of a pair of leather sandals he had made in prison.

She wore leather sandals with straps that came half way up her calves.

■ VERB

wear

I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding.

Instead of shoes, they wore plastic sandals over socks; their feet were covered with dust.

Your feet can get burned when patches of skin are exposed when you wear sandals .

Others wear sandals and tattered clothing.

She wore leather sandals with straps that came half way up her calves.

He wore homemade sandals and a sarong that fell from his waist to his bony knees.

No socks covered his hairy legs, while on his feet he wore only sandals .

She wears sandals a good deal, and bare feet.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

open-toed sandals/shoes

She took off her open-toed shoes.

There are also these artificial plastic toes that you fit over your artificial foot, so you can wear open-toed sandals.

Those who did were mostly long-haired, bearded and dressed in open-toed sandals.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He wore a light yellow tunic which reached the knee, and on his feet were leather sandals with decorated metal buckles.

Mansions sprung up in the once poor agricultural center, and one drug lord walked its streets with gold-plated sandals.

Robbie's sandals were low-heeled, but even so she found the pace hard going.

She just let her feet get wet in their sensible plastic sandals.

Some are in deck shoes, some are in sandals, me in my flip-flops.

The soles of her feet were dyed with henna, making a brown sandal .

The toe of his right sandal slowly drew a circle.

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