in-a-sentence.com, use heels in a sentence

Use heels in a sentence

Sentences ending with heels

At Thouars here"--his words followed his finger--"at Fontenay, at Saumur, at Torfou, at Coron, at Chateau- Gonthier, at Pontorson, at Dol, at Antrain, you had us by the heels. [11]
He followed its winding course, first to the right, then to the left, Huck at his heels. [5]
Here we were warned, one day, that a Union colonel was sweeping down on us with a whole regiment at his heels. [5]
The Marchioness dealt, turned up a knave, and omitted to take the usual advantage; upon which Mr Swiveller called out as loud as he could--'Two for his heels! [12]
But it always turned out that the lacking ingredient was still lacking--though it always appeared, at the same time, that the Colonel was right on its heels. [5]
I went blindly through the woods for hours after the night fell, my horse stumbling and weary, until at length I came to a lonely clearing on the mountain side, and a fierce pack of dogs dashed barking at my horse's heels. [9]
Then she stirred the fire, threw a log upon it, snuffed the candles, hastily put on her moccasins, fur coat, wool cap, and gloves, and went to the door quickly, the dog at her heels. [11]
The youth entered the barn, the King following eagerly upon his heels. [5]
They tell me that Lamothe has a very pretty force of redskins at his heels. [9]
You can not swim on your back and make any progress of any consequence, because your feet stick away above the surface, and there is nothing to propel yourself with but your heels. [5]

More example sentences with the word heels in them

Clap spurs with your heels, sez I, and down the side of the turf together and give 'em the teeth of our guns! [11]
They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
When she entered with her heavy step, treading on her heels, the gentlemen and Mademoiselle Bourienne rose and the little princess, indicating her to the gentlemen, said: "Voila Marie! [2]
With some misgivings William Wetherell watched Mr. Bixby disappear among the throng, kicking up his heels behind, and then went upstairs. [9]
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards. [10]
I told her what you told me to tell her: that you were now but an incoherent series of compound fractures extending from your scalp-lock to your heels, and that the comminuted projections caused you to look like a hat-rack. [5]
At length, after what seemed an age of staring at his legs, the ground caved on him, and he would have smothered if we had not dragged him out by the heels, sputtering and all powdered brown. [9]
This, then, was what it meant to be a lawyer of importance, to have, like a Chesterfield, an ante-room where clients cooled their heels and awaited one's pleasure... [9]
The storekeeper's attention was next distracted by the sight of one who wandered slowly but ceaselessly from group to group, kicking up his heels behind, and halting always in the rear of the speakers. [9]
Jake as usual, was kicking his heels in front of the store, talking to Rias and others about the coming Fourth of July celebration at Brampton. [9]
One art trod upon another's heels with Beaton. [8]
Her, that's kicked up her heels for a living! [11]
The last one took to his heels, and a moment later I had my hand in that of Mr. Stevens. [11]
An infantryman came to the fire, squatted on his heels, held his hands to the blaze, and turned away his face. [2]
These be dark times, when strangers have spies at their heels, and all travellers are suspect. [11]
We wandered for three hours among the chambers and crypts and dungeons of the fortress, and trod where the mailed heels of many a knightly Crusader had rang, and where Phenician heroes had walked ages before them. [5]
She was, at this moment, the universe to him; and all else--the pursuers at his heels, his father, his sister, pretty Ino, to whom he had vowed his love only the night before--had ceased to exist for him. [10]
With heavy hearts they draggled at the heels of his troop, as they marched down to the river-side to embark. [4]
I drank, and the wine did not affect me, as voices got loud and louder, and glasses rang, and spurs rattled on shuffling heels, and a scabbard clanged on a chair. [11]
We had left the walls and moat of the town far behind us, when we heard swift horses at our heels, and Sir Franz, with two serving-men, joined the fellowship. [10]
Every detective of the large force scattered over this huge extent of country sent his hourly report, and each and every one of them had a clue, and was shadowing something, and was hot upon the heels of it. [5]
The sole and the heel were plainly to be seen, and, hard by, the print of a man's large, broad shoes, with iron-shod heels, which told Kubbeling that they were those of Uhlwurm's great boots. [10]
Where now was the burthen of great wealth which had hung about his heels and hindered his running freely? [10]
Is there anything that's skulking at our heels to hurt us? [11]
It was curious that such reflections as these should have been delayed until after the achievement of my absorbing desire, more curious that they should have followed so closely on the heels of it. [9]
Diodoros, seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. [10]
Then, with a sudden impulse, he dug heels into his horse's sides, and galloped back towards Askatoon. [11]
The pants were stuffed into the tops of high boots, the heels whereof were armed with great Spanish spurs, whose little iron clogs and chains jingled with every step. [5]
The old prince, stepping on his heels, paced up and down his study and sent Tikhon to ask Mary Bogdanovna what news.--"Say only that 'the prince told me to ask,' and come and tell me her answer. [2]
Five minutes later Stephen was bowling through the chute and showing the rival boat a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar pair of heels. [5]
He would bluster sometimes, and string a peasant up by the heels, but his gallows was never used; and, what was much in the minds of the people, the Cure did not refuse the woman the sacrament. [11]
I needed exercise, so I employed my agent in setting stranded logs and dead trees adrift, and I sat on a boulder and watched them go whirling and leaping head over heels down the boiling torrent. [5]
He gets them so broken in that they will run like a pair of deer all over the farm, turning the yoke, and kicking their heels, while he follows in full chase, shouting the ox language till he is red in the face. [4]
Here, on the sixth of May, 1853, I passed close on the heels of the great disaster. [6]
And Insall, still sitting on his heels, waved his hand. [9]
I feel like sitting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, straining tight, as tight as possible, and flying away! [2]
Her brothers and sisters followed at her heels, and when they saw their favorite sister bewailing herself they followed her example without knowing at first what Arsinoe was crying for, but soon with terror and horror at their father lying there stiff and disfigured. [10]
But one must shoot at this creature once, if he wishes to see him throw his heart into his heels, and do the best he knows how. [5]
At his bidding she mounted and rode on close to the heels of his burro. [13]
At last you see daylight; now, take to your heels and fly! [10]
There came a second of sheer terror, a hoarse challenge in French, and then I took to my heels and flew towards the fort at the top of my speed. [9]
She heard the scrunch of his heels upon the gravel, the clank of his sword upon the rocks, and looked up with a flush, her needle poised; for none should know of her presence in this place save her father. [11]
Two or three scholars sprang forward, flung the low creature head over heels into a corner, and reinstated the patrician, smoothing his ruffled dignity with many soothing and regretful speeches. [5]
To poor simple Salech yonder, whom we allowed to tramp half naked at our camels' heels out of pity.--It is his as much as it is yours or mine or the Khaliff's. [10]
Occasionally it was safest to dismount and lead them up slippery ascents; but this was also dangerous, for it was difficult to keep them from treading on our heels, in their frantic flounderings, in the steep, wet, narrow, brier-grown path. [4]
He set off running again, but the other pursued him, and kept close at his heels till he had passed all the houses and began to go up the mountain-path. [10]
Now a vast roast turkey, stretched on the broad of his back, with his heels in the air and the rich juices oozing from his fat sides ... but I may as well stop there, for they would not know how to cook him. [5]
One lecture follows right on the heels of another, with very little time for the student to get out of one hall and into the next; but the industrious ones manage it by going on a trot. [5]
Mr. Catherwood's Ben, reeking of the stable, had brought the rumor of the marching on the camp into the dining-room, and close upon the heels of this the rumble of the drums and the passing of Sigel's regiment. [9]
We are getting reconciled to halls and bedchambers with unhomelike stone floors and no carpets--floors that ring to the tread of one's heels with a sharpness that is death to sentimental musing. [5]
Prince Hippolyte hurriedly put on his cloak, which in the latest fashion reached to his very heels, and, stumbling in it, ran out into the porch following the princess, whom a footman was helping into the carriage. [2]
Sellers knew the President very well, and had access to his presence when officials were kept cooling their heels in the Waiting-room. [5]
She wore a plain muslin cap with a high puff in the crown, a short woolen gown, a white and blue checked apron, and shoes with heels. [4]
Two shouts rang out, one close upon the heels of the other: "Apply the torch! [5]
There was only one cruet left, and that was a stopperless, fly-specked, broken-necked thing, with two inches of vinegar in it, and a dozen preserved flies with their heels up and looking sorry they had invested there. [5]
We are close on their heels. [10]
And again Revolution, on the heels of the fugitives, poured into the old palace and filled it with its tatterdemalions. [4]
Years hang lead on our heels, but do you know what it is that lends them the swiftest wings? [10]
His costume was of the oddest: a long-waisted coat reaching nearly to his heels, short trousers, a flowered silk vest, and a napless hat. [4]
The man was of large, bony frame; his hair and whiskers were very long and snowy white; he was clothed in a robe of sheepskins which reached from his neck to his heels. [5]
On the heels of it came another, then several together, and a faint shouting borne on the light wind. [9]
The fox should not stop to kill the hare when the hunters are at his heels! [10]
But Janders did not go large; for at that very moment there came the bugle-call for the working parties to get into the zeriba, as from the mimosa scrub came hundreds upon hundreds of "Osnum Digners" hard upon the heels of the vedettes. [11]
But they found no treasure, but a newly-buried body, and on this had taken to their heels in all haste. [10]
It's only a minute I had; for the regular relief watch was almost at my heels. [11]
It seems to me as if that book of yours, Captain, would bring luck to this part of the White Guard, that bein' out at heels like has to stay behind. [11]
A big, red-bearded man lifted my heels to drain me. [9]
They wore a long, light-colored loose robe that hung to their heels. [5]
They have a long start, but that is nothing, with a ship under you that can show its heels to any craft. [11]
In the passage little Kozlovski was squatting on his heels in front of a clerk. [2]
The first call Laura received from the other extremity of the Washington aristocracy followed close upon the heels of the one we have just been describing. [5]
I told the king to give his heels wings, and I would explain later. [5]
Jean thinks she is studying too, but I don't know what it is unless it is the horses; she spends the day under their heels in the stables--and that is but a continuation of her Hartford system of culture. [5]
Orlando dug heels into his horse and rode for the point from which the cry for help had come. [11]
The thought arose in her brain, but took effect in her heels. [5]
I was ruined if she gave an alarm: all Quebec would be at my heels, and my purposes would be defeated. [11]
All talk, and hypocrite down to his heels. [11]
I perceive now, however, that they might have taken him by the heels and thrown him clear over the house without discommoding him very much. [5]
He handed the horses over to the soldier who was stirring the pot and squatted down on his heels by the fire beside the officer with the long neck. [2]
He had a horse that could show heels to my Nancy, did he? [9]
Suddenly he drew himself up and nodded decisively; he would make an attempt to save Hermas, and faithful to his own nature, action trod on the heels of resolve. [10]
It seemed to him--and for a moment it was the only thing of which he was conscious--that the heels of his boots shrieked in the shingle, and with every step he was raising an immense weight. [11]
The rider gave him his head, and the next minute Jack's four heels were in the air, and he came down on his side in a flash. [4]
At the gunner's heels were the hundred and fifty prisoners we had taken, released by the master at arms. [9]
Still at his heels she comes, and once afoot, is never turned aside! [12]
Right on the heels of it came word that San Francisco had responded superbly before the telegram was half a day old. [5]
And behind him, heels kicking up likewise, followed Jake and Sam, Jethro apparently oblivious of their presence. [9]
He dug his heels into the broncho's side, and although it had done its day's work, it reached out upon the trail as though fresh from the corral. [11]
Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. [2]
For a fortnight he paid as little attention to the young man as he did to the messengers who came with notes and cooled their heels in the outer office until it became the Judge's pleasure to answer them. [9]
By the time he had handed it back, and its beautiful wearer had put it on again (which she did with perfect composure and indifference), the lodger returned with the show and showmen at his heels, and a strong addition to the body of spectators. [12]
Indeed his annoyance had time to augment a good deal; for he was allowed to cool his heels a frill half hour in the ante-room before those gentlemen emerged and he was ushered into the presence. [5]
If Mr. Bernard had shown himself at that moment a few rods in advance, the chances are that in less than one minute he would have found himself with a noose round his neck, at the heels of a mounted horseman. [6]
The Grand Duchess had no heels on her shoes. [5]
If I had had a horse worth a cent--but no, the minute he saw that buffalo bull wheel on him and give a bellow, he raised straight up in the air and stood on his heels. [5]
He was vastly gratified the next moment, to see the "Spaniard" take to his heels and get himself out of sight. [5]
At his heels frisked the darling of his bachelor estate, his terrier "Fan," a creature no larger than a squirrel. [5]
The road the French would take was unknown, and so the closer our troops trod on their heels the greater distance they had to cover. [2]
It lay, hands folded, in the dress of Prince Rupert's cavaliers, a sword at side, and great spurs laid beside the heels. [11]
The hound at first resented the act, but under Rosalie's touch became quiet, and followed at their heels towards the post-office, licking the wounded man's hands as they hung down. [11]

This page helps answer: how do I use the word heels in a sentence? How do you use heels in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word heels? It contains example sentences with the word heels, a sentence example for heels, and heels in sample sentence.