instep

[US]/'ɪnstep/
[UK]/'ɪn'stɛp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the arched middle part of the foot; something that is shaped like the arched middle part of the foot.

Example Sentences

He kicked the ball with the top of his instep.

She wore high heels that accentuated her slender instep.

The new shoes rubbed against her instep and caused blisters.

He felt a sharp pain in his instep after running for a long time.

She wrapped a bandage around her injured instep.

The tight shoes pinched her instep and made it difficult to walk.

He has a high arch on his instep, which makes finding comfortable shoes a challenge.

The dancer pointed her toes to show off her flexible instep.

The soccer player twisted his ankle, causing pain in his instep.

She massaged her sore instep to relieve the tension.

Real-world Examples

I could distinguish the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming in.

Source: The Case of the Green Jade Crown in Sherlock Holmes' Investigations

One day, the intellectual stepped on the instructor's instep carelessly.

Source: Pan Pan

She had not bothered to put on stockings, and the shoes had left smudges on her bare insteps.

Source: A handsome face.

Midge wears a low heeled gray pump with a strap across the instep.

Source: Fashion experts interpret film and television dramas.

He felt her foot all over, moving the ankle and the instep and every toe.

Source: The little cabin on the grassland.

She was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her little insteps quite red, and that looked so dangerous!

Source: Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

There's a funny squiggle on the instep part of your sole where the price has been scored off.

Source: One Shilling Candle (Upper)

It was a brown shoe, and instead of being laced it was tied with a buckle and strap across the instep.

Source: A handsome face.

Bergkamp killed the ball with his instep, cut inside sending his marker, well, to the shops, then poked the ball home with the outside of his boot.

Source: 2018 World Cup

How beautiful the ground beneath this pine thickly strewn with slender needles and grand cones, and the piles of cone-scales, seed-wings and shells around the instep of each tree where the squirrels have been feasting!

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

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