How to Use shoe-leather in a Sentence

shoe-leather

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• These projects often cross the line from cookbook to ethnography, buoyed by shoe-leather reporting overseas.
  — Jamie Feldmar, Saveur, 15 Apr. 2026
• But her strongest assets were her human instincts, her news judgment, her skilled interviewing techniques and shoe-leather reporting.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2026
• Those first days after the initial anthrax case, our muscle memory focused us on the important work of traditional shoe-leather epidemiology.
  — Daniel Jernigan, STAT, 26 Sep. 2026
• But solving an outbreak still largely depends on shoe-leather detective work done by epidemiologists who follow up with each person confirmed to have a cyclospora infection.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
• The other is Seymour Hersh, an investigative reporter/writer of the shoe-leather era, a throwback who is still at the admirable if frustrating business, fighting the good fight in an increasingly muddy media landscape.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
• No combination of stilettos and old-fashioned shoe-leather can temper the fact that integrity, talent, hard work, and a dedication to treating everything from fashion to the moving pictures with seriousness is in perpetual danger of extinction.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
• Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan credited old-school, shoe-leather policework with leading investigators to Kevin Lino, 38, as a suspect in the unsolved deaths of two men found dead more than a decade ago.
  — Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 5 Aug. 2025
• The pair’s shoe-leather work in Austin — from the Longhorns’ DKR Stadium to other sites on the University of Texas campus, area churches and one rather significant bar — reveals as much about who Bailey might really be as what happened to her father.
  — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2023