How To Use Plimsoll In A Sentence
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Instead, let's run through the fashion highlights, which go something like this: During the 1800s, plimsolls were developed by the Liverpool Rubber company in the form of canvas shoes with a rubber sole and a line resembling the plimsoll line on a boat.
The Great Sneaker Revival
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The Lansdowne did not like bare feet, so they sent him out in his first pair of plimsolls from Woolworth's in Oxford Street.
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It's a savvy move for a company that sells what are essentially simple plimsolls.
The Great Sneaker Revival
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To this day, one of my colleagues cannot bear the sound of rubber plimsolls on a wooden floor.
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Today, she's wearing plimsolls that skip across her kitchen's wooden floor with quick little trit-trot movements.
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Fortunately, the caves are warm here so an old shirt, a pair of shorts and a pair of green farmer's plimsolls are pretty well adequate.
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She dressed simply; jeans, plimsolls and a sweatshirt, and then she left the bedroom for the last time.
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When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just plimsolls and fluorescent ‘clackers’ on our wheels and hardly any brakes.
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She is already wealthier than the 50 school friends she once ran with, in plimsolls and skirts.
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Him... Karl, sitting on the platform outside in khaki trousers and a white open-necked shirt, plimsolls, no socks.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Connor in vest and trousers - Huw Pritchard stripped to the waist, wearing boxing-gloves, shorts and plimsolls.
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As if finding the money to pay for the plethora of plimsolls, shirts and blazers wasn't hard enough, now they have the added dilemma of worrying whether the fingers of a child on the other side of the world have been exploited to make those items boasting oh-so-tempting knock-down prices.
Should I buy the cheapest school uniform?
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MBTs are as ugly as sin – a cross between an orthopaedic clump-foot anti-style statement and the ludicrous stack-soled plimsolls to which Baby Spice took an inexplicable liking in the 1990s.
What I bought this week: MBT fitness shoes
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Once upon a time, any old canvas plimsoll would do for a spot of tennis or a jog around the park.
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Athletes must complete a 200-yard circuit, gingerly stepping over obstacles in their path such as fast-food containers, cans of lager and noxious-smelling plimsolls.
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But Plimsoll's goin 'to be mighty sorry fo' himse'f befo 'long.
Rimrock Trail
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To help young children to change quickly from shoes to plimsolls (pumps, daps, gym shoes, trainers - whatever they are called in your part of the world), use elastic instead of laces.
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So they opted for a tailored calf-length coat - chocolate brown - with a blue pinstripe suit and white plimsolls.
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If you buy the kids plimsolls for PE, rather than pumps, you probably live in East Yorkshire - or outside the region.
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Felbridge was long-haired, in his late thirties, with a ratty fur coat and plimsolls that were flapping open, but a good photographer.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Naturally we were equally impressed by the bravery of Commander Crabb, who took them on equipped only with a pair of plimsolls and some swimming goggles.
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One girl who turned up for night duty wearing plimsolls received a proper rocket.
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It was a cavernous building where even a plimsoll echoed on the stairs.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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There, on the wall, are a gorgeous pair of 1960s plimsolls - white, with little red bows and tiny red stripes around the base.
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Shilts is pictured in slacks and plimsolls "relaxing" in a fringed armchair in front of his massive oak-veneer TV; but even here, cross-legged in the shadow of his own occasional table, he still seems to glower and fret, radiating a dark and unsettling energy of repulsion.
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Indeed, it's hard to believe that the young woman sprawled on the floor in her jeans and pink plimsolls, fiddling with her earrings, is going to let any of it go to her head.
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Inside, dozens of stalls sold goods ranging from Palestinian olive oil to sloganeering tee shirts advertising everything from cannabis and Che Guevera to ‘No Sweat’ fair trade plimsolls.
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Athletic shoes have come a long way since the late 18th century, when early rubber soled shoes, called plimsolls, were so crude they had no right or left foot.
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A pair of plimsolls - we used to call them gutties - was purchased for the princely sum of 10, and the kindly police officers then drove him back to the stadium in plenty of time for the match.
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Next they flew to Gibraltar to join the royal yacht Britannia for a Mediterranean cruise, with a marine band aboard and nearly 250 officers and crew, the crew as usual in plimsolls so as not disturb the royal rest.
Royal wedding then, and now
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So they opted for a tailored calf-length coat - chocolate brown - with a blue pinstripe suit and white plimsolls.
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The cast/crew is excellent: Richard Holt's John is an amiable prefect, Akiya Henry's Titty is an imaginative live wire, Katie Moore's Susan is as tidy as her plimsolls and Stewart Wright's Roger is a treat – a colossus in cardigans.
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Anastasia kicked the rung of her chair with one plimsoll.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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Daniel wore new plimsolls with his blue suit and he was smiling like a Halloween pumpkin.
WHITE LIES
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He wore plimsolls, loosely tied with bits of string.
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In those days, the young students didn't wear nylon tracksuits and trainers, but gymslips and plimsolls.
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And, comfortable as they may look, O'Neill also urges parents to campaign against any school policy that requires children to wear plimsolls inside at all times.
