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How to use shoeblack in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shoeblack? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I never heard a shoeblack called a boot-finisher before, but I think the euphemism was allowable in a young lady who wishes to exalt the commercial status of her intended.
A druggist's apprentice in London, Dyott arrived in Philadelphia in the 1790s almost penniless and rented a basement room where by day he polished shoes and by night manufactured shoeblack.
In an effort to obtain firsthand experience with the problems of lower-class children, he disguised himself as a shoeblack and worked nights alongside these boys.
Examples from Classical Literature
Near at hand was seated a shoeblack, to whom he went to have his boots repolished.
I was so pleased that I gave half a franc to a pestilential Arab shoeblack.
From the major-domo to the shoeblack, Mr. Harry had a peace-offering for them all.
Do you resign the pen for the brush, to save your paying tribute to the shoeblack?
Such an event as a shoeblack in South Audley Street was not to be passed by.
He would not mind her marrying a shoeblack if only he could debase his own family.
The shoeblack consented, and a price was fixed upon and paid.
But how rarely nowadays do we see this peripatetic shoeblack!
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