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Advertisement What about shoelaces?—Angela Haupt, Time, 25 Aug. 2025 Authorities claim that Alessandro was then suffocated with a pillow and strangled using shoelaces.—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025 Anthony Scott, 58, tied shoelaces around his neck and affixed them to a toilet in the Manhattan Detention Complex – known as The Tombs – on Oct. 14 2021.—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 31 July 2025 Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes, like the plastic tips of shoelaces.—David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoelace
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