Thesaurus results for SHOEHORN

shoehorn

verb

as in to cram

to fit (people or things) into a tight space the organizers of the county fair shoehorned the craft booths between the midway and the farm exhibits

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Recent Examples of shoehorn Since then, these standalone console titles have mostly disappeared, been shoehorned into an Ultimate Team mode or moved to mobile. —

Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 14 Mar. 2026 That bill was watered down, however, and eventually got shoehorned into the one that passed Friday. —

Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026 The best of the genre allow for more complexity than this one and don’t try quite so hard to shoehorn so much into 90 minutes. —

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2026 The most notable is the AC-Bristol, which inspired Carroll Shelby to shoehorn Ford’s 260 ci V-8 into the tiny AC bodyshell, the rest of which has its own rich history. —

Robert Ross, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shoehorn

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Not in terms of the scale of its sets—we’ll leave that to the giant staircase in The Queen of Versailles, or whatever is going on with the flying vampires of The Lost Boys—but in terms of the most tropes crammed into one two-act stretch.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
Memorization and keywords help non-English speakers On a recent Saturday, eight students crammed into a tiny classroom with road signs adorning the walls.

— David Ovalle, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026