Sentences with word «aglet»

Like aglets, telomeres don't last forever.

They work like plastic aglets on shoelaces, preventing chromosomes from fraying and getting chewed up.

When aglets wear down, the shoelace is exposed to fraying and degradation from environmental forces.

If the colorful tasseled aglets of this toe - ring sandals won't make you fall in love, I don't know what will.

Clear lucite forms a slender toe strap while vegan suede laces (finished with gold aglets) loop through a sturdy heel cup, then wrap and tie around the ankle.

Featuring a slip on design, a bow at the front with metallic aglets and classic stitching on the upper, finished with a soft leather lining for a luxe, underfoot feel.

Custom eyelets and aglets do duty next to special «donning straps» and elements that have been designed to age with grace.

In a pivotal scene in Underworld (1997), a Jesuit priest sits down with the protagonist, Nick Shay, when he is a young man and asks him to name all the parts of a shoe — the cuff, the counter, the welt, the vamp, the aglet, the grommet.

In terms of function, telomeres are like the plastic coating (aglet) on the ends of shoelaces that prevents the laces from unraveling.

One Nobel Prize - winning scientist who studies telomeres has compared them to aglets — the plastic or metal sheath covering ends of shoelaces.

The tip of a shoelace is called an «aglet» (or aiglet); the word finds its way into English via Old French and can trace its roots back to «acus», the Latin word for needle.