Barely adequate budget

Usage examples of shoestring.

Some attempts had been made in the first ten years to push high-rises and multi-story uplooks through the dirt, but Mars had been settled on a shoestring.

Nola was beyond answering this question, so as they struggled to shift her five-feet-one, 267-pound frame into the ambulance, she just kissed the yellow Day-Glo crucifix suspended from her shoestring necklace.

Ci Minutes later we were at the head of th starting to descend and join Jory and Melodu we could see near the newel post at the Melodic wore a simple black gown that drap black shoestring straps.

Their boyish grins in response went a long way toward making him forget the misgivings he had about this shoestring operation.

This world of decentralized, small- scale nodes, with instant global access for the best and brightest, would be a perfect milieu for the shoestring attic capitalism that made Mitch Kapor what he is today.

Heather had always known without asking that he liked his eggs over easy, his shirts folded rather than hung, and the junk mail tossed out before he got home, just as he had always known that she loved blue lupines, red shoestring licorice, and hot coffee waiting when she reached the kitchen in the morning.

Katrina had her dress, a blue crepe that matched her eyes, yards and yards of skirt and a tucked bodice with shoestring straps, exactly right for the Burgermeester, she had decided, and handed over another of her brother's cheques.

I began to feel that even if he had lost the detectaphone record, his was the nature to carry out the bluff of still having it, in much the same manner that he would have played the market on a shoestring or made the most of an unfilled four-card flush in a game of poker.

He took a bath at the hostel while he was at it, and showed UP at the Howard house before sundown, as he'd been invited, with a clean shirt and shoestring tie, his rumpled tobacco brown tweed suit, and a good splashing of bay rum.

The proliferation of desktop publishing and the Internet have made it possible for anyone to self-publish or publish their friends on a shoestring budget.

He scowled at himself in the mirror as he put on a fresh flannel shirt of gunmetal gray and fumbled with the foolish-looking shoestring tie they had said he had to wear, these days.

Some attempts had been made in the first ten years to push high-rises and multi-story uplooks through the dirt, but Mars had been settled on^a shoestring.

Chet shouted as he saw the ringleader squirm from Radley's shoestring tackle and break away.

After examining the shoestrings binding the bodies, analyst Lisa Sakevicius sent Gitchell a report indicating that the knots used to tie Christopher and Michael were all “the same,” while those used on Stevie were “all dissimilar to each other and to the other two.

The correct answer would have been shoestrings, some white, others black, that had been removed from the children’s own shoes.