shoehorn

Example Sentences

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It is hard to shoehorn this spectacle of mass-integration, this enforced loss of crowns and kingdoms, into the idea of partition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

"These subjects are not the easiest to shoehorn into a three-and-a-half minute song," says Lorde.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

Galveston’s lawyers, though, say the Black and Latino populations are too dispersed to shoehorn in a specific district for them.

From Washington Times • Dec. 27, 2023

“There’s so many great messages and life lessons that you can shoehorn into scary” stories, said Roth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker