shoehorn

Example Sentences

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It is no mean feat to shoehorn a half-millennium of social, political and economic tumult into a single volume.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

I'm a big Marcus Smith fan but there is no room to shoehorn people in at international level.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2025

The sort of films that I feel capable of making, I don’t think I’d be particularly good at trying to shoehorn into something more sensible.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

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

"That guy David from Rahway? He ever killed anybody with that shoehorn?"

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson