Thesaurus results for SHOEHORNED

shoehorned

verb

past tense of shoehorn

as in crammed

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 shoehorned Learning cannot be condensed into an accelerated course, shoehorned into a semester calendar, rushed and prodded along. —

Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2026 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 Kevin isn’t any more random or inexplicably shoehorned into the story than Irene or Glem. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Feb. 2026 In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong. —

Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026 Williams is being shoehorned into a rotation that’s suddenly getting more crowded, providing coach Charles Lee with a good problem in the health department for once. —

Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2026 In typical Hollywood fashion, though, a spin on the concept just had to be shoehorned in here. —

Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026 The special’s opening half-hour is a series of meaningful opening salvos like this, cannily shoehorned into catch-up anecdotes, each of them laying the groundwork for where Nanjiani ultimately wants the hour to land without tipping his hand in one direction or another. —

Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025

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Hundreds of residents crammed into City Hall, filling multiple overflow rooms.

— Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
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