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
“To shoehorn anything into tiny Disneyland is really hard,” Irvine says, adding, “a lot of people in merchandising would have preferred it was bigger.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 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
They made me remember that guy David and the shoehorn.
From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
