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

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

From BBC • Jul. 8, 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

I looked at myself in his metal shoehorn.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer