How To Use Shoestring In A Sentence

  • It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.
  • Working on a shoestring - ‘I had some wheeling and dealing to do because we didn't have a penny in the piggy bank.’
  • Dresses of printed chiffons and drop waistlines often with shoestring camisole style straps will feature strongly.
  • Though if I use a stiff arm they'll fall down and shoestring tackle me.
  • A pristine stairwell is one more step toward her objective: a data-driven, no-excuses haven for learning, where all children excel and shoestrings never come undone. The Saint (and Scourge) of Schools «
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  • The program was run on a shoestring.
  • Garnish with the shoestring potatoes and baby arugula.
  • Many of the small neighborhood stores and restaurants, particularly those in poor areas, were already operating on a shoestring.
  • Firstly, research contracts are doled out on a ‘winner take all’ model, with a five year lifespan - so if a researcher or team misses out, they must survive on a shoestring for five years.
  • Most B&B owners aren't millionaires, we run our budget on a shoestring so this is desperate for us.
  • With only $24 million at her disposal, less than 2% of the UN's budget, she is operating on a shoestring and facing problems that would have daunted Sisyphus.
  • It's a very accurate and lifelike representation, and it belies its shoestring budget.
  • We've managed to do an awful lot on a shoestring budget, and that will always be the case. The Sun
  • The government has run GP services on a shoestring for years now and it's inevitable that the shoestring will fray and snap. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dr No was shot on a shoestring budget and many thought it would be a flop. Times, Sunday Times
  • A documentary on the subject, made on a shoestring, has proved a surprise hit and reaped a small fortune.
  • But their use of oversized pants, tied shut at the ankles and tied over their shoulders with shoestrings that acted as suspenders, constitutes a use of equipment to shoplift, which is a felony. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • There are lots of skinny belts, tiny snakeskin ones, or leather shoestring ones and what's great about them is that you don't have to have a tiny waist to be able to wear them.
  • The unfortunate party members, staying in seedy bed-and-breakfasts on shoestring budgets, are reduced to scoffing free booze and vol-au-vents at corporate receptions.
  • Not only it is tasty, on a shoestring budget one can gorge on a variety of food.
  • It operates on a shoestring so it may be unkind to point to the very poor production values, but it and others have solved problems more creatively than is the case here.
  • My fingers stumble a little as I knot the shoestring into a bow, like dancers in an unfamiliar routine.
  • Both brothers have lived on a shoestring for years and doubt they'd change much if they had more money. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are new Chinese fashion designers who work in cleverly-designed shops, done obviously on a shoestring but making it look almost more appealing than some of the lux stores at the huge shopping malls. Norma Kamali: My Trip to China
  • He said the eclectic team included ‘students, young graduates, bank managers and housewives’, all operating on a shoestring.
  • Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler.
  • Using a shoestring, a medicine dropper, and a sponge strip, how long does it take to get 10 ml of water from the graduated cylinder to the cup?
  • The Kitchin was launched on a shoestring in 2006, with money begged from the bank, and the support of family and friends. Best UK Restaurant 2010: The Kitchin, Edinburgh
  • The shop has helped me to get married on a shoestring, and yet still be able to wear a stunning dress for the occasion.
  • It runs on a shoestring, heavily reliant on volunteers and capping staff salaries at 18,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • But Hansen got back onto his feet in the blink of an eye, somehow got downfield, and dove to make a game-saving, shoestring tackle at the seven-yard line.
  • Not a shoestring tackle - I'm talking pads on pads.
  • The wild flowers disappeared, and only in the bottom of the draws and gullies grew a few of the very toughest and hardiest: shoestring, and ironweed, and snow-on-the-mountain. O Pioneers!
  • He was wearing calf-high black boots with gray shoestrings.
  • I unearth new treasures each time, at shoestring prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • For years it campaigned on a shoestring. Times, Sunday Times
  • La horma [not "herma"] de su zapato does not mean ` encountering the shoestring, 'since horma means ` shoemaker's last,' that is, the wooden form on which shoemakers build -- or used to build -- shoes. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
  • Others are ferns: golden polypody, long strap fern, and shoestring fern lodge themselves in the remnant bases of the old palm leaves.
  • Repair He has already proved he can get results on a shoestring budget at Blackburn. The Sun
  • The consensus of everyone is that it will be painful, but you cannot run a council as large as ours on a shoestring.
  • The film was made on a shoestring.
  • The British-produced film was made on a shoestring budget.
  • I unearth new treasures each time, at shoestring prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • Readers might well ask how on earth it can be that a website operating on a shoestring is left to provide such a vital and basic service to the public.
  • The shoelace-and-one-Velcro-strap closure gives easy access and a secure, adjustable fit with minimal shoestring / Velcro entanglement.
  • However, despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring, the corps has not been an unqualified success.
  • Even that sort of budget, says Blair, means ‘you run on a shoestring: you spend no money on a motor-home and stay in cheap hotels.’
  • He ties rope, old shoestring, clothes hangers around his waist to keep his pants up.
  • This drill teaches players to put their hand down when someone like tries to shoestring tackle them and fight for extra yards.
  • As we were taking the field, in front of a crowd between 30,000 and 40,000, I tripped on my shoestring and fell flat on my face.
  • It was such a rags to riches story which the brothers did on a shoestring.
  • Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.
  • Do you like to be followed around by a horde of first-graders who need to be shown how to tie their shoestrings each time the shoes need to be tied?
  • Even when he was working on a shoestring, he revealed the kind of amiably creative flair that is often overlooked by film snobs in their unending quest for audience-unfriendly breakthroughs to punish the paying customers for their bourgeois tastes. Burns' Comic Realism Remains, His Brothers Are Gone
  • Being a driver's car means that correct maintenance is important, so running one on a shoestring isn't recommended.
  • No one predicted how successful the series would become and early stories were shot on shoestring budgets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead, I went out and bought me some new shoestrings.
  • We need to replace his button shirts with the pullover kind; pants should have elastic waists, and not belts; shoes should have Velcro, instead of shoestrings.
  • I unearth new treasures each time, at shoestring prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like many entrepreneurs on a shoestring, they are attempting to start a business while they continue to work full-time jobs.
  • Such making is not absorption, does not incur other languages, exports little but the traveler's shoestring budget, imports only what self can be limned, unappropriated, in the discipline of knowledge and generous attention.
  • In addition, new companies are being launched on a relative shoestring. Times, Sunday Times
  • A real Scottish success story, this not-for-profit business was launched on a shoestring in 1999, and now reaches out to 500 social entrepreneurs.
  • The British-produced film was made on a shoestring budget.
  • he managed it on a shoestring
  • Her organisation, already operating on a shoestring, is likely to close, after nearly six years of campaigning.
  • He won three trophies in three years on a shoestring at Valencia. Times, Sunday Times
  • If most of your exposure to religion involves televangelists, you may not realize just how many churches run on shoestring budgets.
  • All its success is built on a shoestring, and now it must make more cuts.
  • Both mains were around the $16 mark, and we shared some shoestring fries with a lemon pepper seasoning, with a side of coriander aioli (I know, bad for the arteries, but what the heck).
  • We had to figure out web content technology on the shoestring budget of a nonprofit. Christianity Today
  • From elegant trapeze artists to humorous anecdotal scenes of circus life on a shoestring budget, you can see why Camille is tempted to join Petra and run away with the circus.
  • In short, the manager has to find succour from shoestrings, a quality that Scott has demonstrated in the past.
  • On their shoestring budget, how have they done it? Times, Sunday Times
  • Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.
  • They wore wine satin ballerina-length dresses with shoestring straps, and carried smaller versions of the bride's bouquet.
  • He is promising to build'a revolution' on a shoestring budget and has refused to take money from billionaire backers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The end result should be lengths of zucchini that look like shoestrings. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was comparatively cheap to other courses but was always run on a shoestring.
  • Working with a shoestring budget, he has built a side that puts the emphasis on teamwork. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite throwing a walloping £19 million at a system that worked very well thank you on a shoestring, the corps has not been an unqualified success.
  • We also noted two bias-cut rose pink dresses with shoestring straps, culottes, cross-over tops in cotton and T-shirts with shell emblems.
  • The club exists on a shoestring budget.
  • Over 600 individual animations are in the game, allowing everything from shoestring catches to wrap tackles.
  • Several of the drawings were laced together with shoestrings in primitive book form.
  • She attained new heights of ingenuity in running its educational efforts on a shoestring, and applying its stretched resources to the backward hinterland. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
  • Having proven his ability to operate successfully on a shoestring budget he is regarded as a prime candidate to return to the cash-strapped club he served for many years.
  • When you string together a series of championships, or piece together the ultimate team on a shoestring budget, it feels just that much better to play and win with them.
  • He has wrought huge changes on a relative shoestring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Glen plopped down beside us, and idly played with one of my shoestrings as he read through it.
  • Several of the drawings were laced together with shoestrings in primitive book form.
  • I don't want them living on a shoestring unless they absolutely have to.
  • And often people associate charity with an organisation that runs on a shoestring, when in fact that may not be so.
  • They struggle on shoestring grants and the boundless goodwill of volunteers and poorly paid staff. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our shoestring budgets are shrinking further. Times, Sunday Times

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