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

What Elon Musk Thought has in common with earlier techno-futurist disasters is the attempt to shoehorn that messiness and complexity into a more “efficient” monoculture to achieve his utopian vision.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 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

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

From "Miracle's Boys" by Jacqueline Woodson