Examples of shoehorn in a Sentence

Verb A parking garage has been shoehorned between the buildings. She's trying to shoehorn a year's worth of classes into a single semester. I don't know how they managed to shoehorn everyone into that little room.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun In his autobiography, her friend Hughes would recount a time when, mid-party, A’Lelia started to cry about an ex-husband, retreating to her room and cradling a gold shoehorn her former lover had left her with. — Mayukh Sen, Bon Appétit, 14 Oct. 2021 Match your belt to your shoehorn, which should dangle from a gauge in your earlobe. — Colin Stokes, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020 But the weapons in our bedroom were limited to a shoehorn, a flattening iron and a stack of hardcover books. — John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 July 2018 But this documentary feature is fascinating and infuriating in unequal parts, the latter far outweighing the former, since Mr. Jarecki’s instrument is a shoehorn. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 28 June 2018 In the closet was a cane-size shoehorn topped with a silver dog’s head, Tom Wolfe-style. — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018 Students used shoehorns and grapefruit knives to detach screens and squirm out windows, or stumbled out a basement exit into the stabbing cold. — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018 But what makes this shoehorn special is its length—30 inches—which allows its 6-foot 3-inch owner to put on the snuggest of loafers without sitting or bending down. — Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2017 In between, the show shoehorns social media into as many segments as possible, with sometimes-cringeworthy results. — Maeve Mcdermott, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb Six hours may in fact not be a large enough canvas for all that the writers want to accomplish — especially their efforts to shoehorn observations about how policing has changed after Gray’s death in 2015. — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022 In a particularly unfair turn, companies often shoehorn candidates with over 20 years of experience as being too set in their ways, Williams says, or hesitant to adapt or adjust. — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2022 Moreover, these super-sized condos came with amenities that would be difficult to shoehorn into the footprint of a townhouse, such as swimming pools, spas, and garage parking. — John Walkup, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022 Trying to shoehorn an hour-long weight training session into an already busy day while keeping up with all your other commitments isn’t likely to be feasible. — Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022 Managers went from trying to shoehorn Windows onto smartphones, servers and networked appliances to bringing its services to platforms of all types. — Jon Markman, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022 Why are writers and politicians today trying so hard to shoehorn the word existential into sentences? — Peter Funt, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022 No need to shoehorn ambitious and unsustainable resolutions into 2022 planning. — Allison Hope, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022 Even with a field this small, players will have some trouble figuring out how to shoehorn Hot Rod Charlie into their exotics. — Guy Martin, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021 See More

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